Synchlora frondaria
Distribution: southern USA to Argentina; Greater & Lesser Antilles.
Type locality: French Guyana.
Synonyms: Eucrostis albicostaria Herrich-Schaeffer 1870;
Nemoria denticularia Walker 1861;
Synchlora excurvaria Packard 1873;
Thalera minuata Walker 1866;
Aplodes pallida Warren 1900.
E. Caribbean records: Nevis; Guadeloupe; Martinique; Grenada.
Grenadines records: uncertain as series mixed in with S. gerularia
(E.U. Exp., No 103 (No. 103 shared with S. gerularia)).
Method of identification: by comparison with material identified in my collection
by comparison of genitalia with the figures in Ferguson (1985). Illustrated in colour by Zagatti,
Lalanne-Cassou and Le Duchat d'Aubigny (internet).
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