Macaria everiata

Distribution: Greater and Lesser Antilles.
Type locality: Haiti.
Synonyms: Apicia rithrusaria Walker 1860; Pyrinia tegularia Walker 1860.
E. Caribbean records: St. Martin; Montserrat; Nevis; Guadeloupe; Dominica; Martinique; Barbados; Grenada.
Grenadines records: Bequia, Mustique, Canouan, Union, Petite Martinique (E.U. Exp, No's 132, 136 & 145).
Method of identification: by comparison with specimens from my collection from the Lesser Antilles identified as this species by Claude Herbulot of Paris. Adult & Genitalia illustrated in colour on website on French Antilles Lepidoptera by Zagatti, Lalanne-Cassou & Le Duchat d'Aubigny.
Notes: the illustrated specimen is from Grenada.

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