MOTHS OF THE GRENADINES
SPECIES LISTS BY FAMILY
Pyralidae: Dichogaminae


SUBFAMILY DESCRIPTION
the subfamily DICHOGAMINAE is an almost exclusively neotropical subfamily of quite large species, whose larvae are leaf-spinners on the plant genus Capparis. Heppner (1995) lists 19 named species in this subfamily from the Neotropics.

JAMAICAN SPECIES
I catalogue two species of this subfamily from the Grenadines. Click on any underlined species name to go to a colour illustration of the adult and brief information on the species.

The genus Dichogama
  • Dichogama innocua Fabricius 1793

    The genus Alatuncusia
  • Alatuncusia bergii Moeschler 1890

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