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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