Leucania dorsalis

Distribution: Antilles (etc.?)
Type locality: Dominican Republic.
Synonyms: Leucania humidicola Guenee 1852, according to Poole (1989) - although Zagatti et al. (internet) treat humidicola (also present in the Grenadines) and dorsalis as two separate species.
E. Caribbean records: Guadeloupe; Martinique; St. Kitt's; Montserrat.
Grenadines records: Union (Daudin, Sept. 1995, Sept. 1998, Nov. 1997); Bequia, Mustique, Canouan, Union, Frigate, Petite Martinique (E.U. Exp., No. 98, mixed series with humidicola).
Method of identification: My specimens from elsewhere the West Indies kindly identified by Bernard Lalanne-Cassou, Paris. Adult & Genitalia illustrated in colour on website on French Antilles Lepidoptera by Zagatti, Lalanne-Cassou & Le Duchat d'Aubigny.
Notes: this complex genus is in the process of extensive revision for the West Indies by Dr. Morton S. Adams (in press) (John Rawlins pers. comm., 2001).

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