Hemeroplanis scopulepes

Distribution: North Carolina to Argentina; Lesser Antilles; Greater Antilles except Puerto Rico.
Type locality: 'England' (actually S.E. USA).
Synonyms: Scopelopus inops Stephens 1829; Hemeroplanis pyralis Hubner 1818; Hemeroplanis pyraloides Hubner 1823; Poaphila irrecta Walker 1865; Apicia denticulata Walker 1866; Coptocnemia floccalis Zeller 1872; Pleonectyptera geometralis Grote 1872.
E. Caribbean records: St. Martin; Montserrat; Dominica; Guadeloupe, Grenada.
Grenadines records: Union (Daudin, Nov. 1997); Bequia, Canouan, Mayero, Union, Petite Martinique, (E.U. Exp., No's 120, 133, 204, 244).
Method of identification: illustrated in black and white by Kimball (1965) pl. 18, fig. 21 (as'Hemeroplanis scopulaepes').
Notes: this group of species has been revised by Todd (1960). Misidentified as 'Epitausa coppryi' by the Exeter University Expedition report. Listed under family Hypeninae by Zagatti, Lalanne-Cassou & Le Duchat d'Aubigny (internet).

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