Anicla infecta
Distribution: tropical and subtropical America.
Type locality: 'Europe' (America).
Synonyms: Agrotis incivis Guenee 1852;
Agrotis prodenoides Walker 1857;
Laphygma praecipua Walker 1869;
Graphiphora bartholemica Wallengren 1871;
Anicla alabamae Grote 1874;
Prodenia pauper Butler 1878;
Agrotis incisa Gundlach 1881;
Agrotis mulina Moeschler 1886.
E. Caribbean records: Montserrat; Guadeloupe; Dominica; St. Vincent; St. Lucia; Grenada; Barbados.
Grenadines records: Union (Daudin, Aug. & Sept. 1995); Bequia, Mustique, Canouan (E.U. Exp., No. 93).
Method of identification: illustrated in black and white by Kimball (1965)
pl. 11, fig. 19. Adult & Genitalia illustrated in colour on website on French Antilles
Lepidoptera by Zagatti,
Lalanne-Cassou & Le Duchat d'Aubigny.
Notes: the larva is a grass feeder.
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