Bagisara repanda
Distribution: southern USA; Central and South America; Antilles.
Type locality: West Indies.
Synonyms: Atethmia subusta Hubner 1823;
Atethmia inusta Guenee 1852;
Anomis dispartita Walker 1858;
Anthophila erecta Walker 1858;
Poaphila congesta Walker 1858;
Bagisara incidens Walker 1858;
Laphygma trilinea Walker 1865;
Acontia venusta Berg 1882;
Acontia unipunctata Moeschler 1890.
E. Caribbean records: Montserrat; Antigua; Nevis; Guadeloupe; Dominica.
Grenadines records: Bequia, Mayero, Palm (E.U. Exp., No's. 143 and 221).
Method of identification: illustrated in black and white by Kimball (1965) pl. 13,
fig. 24 (as 'Atethmia subusta'). Adult & Genitalia illustrated in colour on website on French Antilles
Lepidoptera by Zagatti,
Lalanne-Cassou & Le Duchat d'Aubigny.
Notes: this genus is placed in the subfamily 'Bagisarinae' by Poole (1989.
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