MOTHS OF THE GRENADINES
SPECIES LISTS BY FAMILY
Geometridae: Geometrinae
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SUBFAMILY DESCRIPTION
The 'Emeralds' (GEOMETRINAE) are all small or quite small species (15-30 mm in wingspan)
and, as their name implies, are almost all a bright emerald green in
ground coloration, occasionally with an additional brown or golden-brown
wing maculation. The works by Pitkin (1993) and Cook and Scoble (1995)
illustrate and catalogue about half of the aproximately 450 species of
neotropical Geometrinae (Cook & Scoble, 1995). For the remaining
genera I rely at present upon the outdated and frequently wrong Seitz
(1925).
GRENADINES SPECIES
I have catalogued two species of this subfamily from the Grenadines, as listed below.
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illustration of the adult and brief information on
the species.
The material which I received from the Grenadines was too badly damaged (even, in most cases, lacking
abdomens so that even genitalial dissection was impossible). It appears, however, that the following two
species are present in the material I have from the Grenadines at present:
The genus Synchlora
Synchlora gerularia Hubner 1823
Synchlora frondaria Guenee 1857
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