Panula inconstans
Distribution: southern USA; Central America; Greater and Lesser Antilles.
Type locality: North America.
Synonyms: Poaphila consequens Walker 1858;
Poaphila contacta Walker 1858;
Ophiusa difficilis Walker 1858;
Ophiusa narrans Walker 1858;
Alamis olivacea Walker 1865;
Poaphila subordinata Walker 1865;
Athyrma tetragona Walker 1865.
E. Caribbean records: Guadeloupe; St. Lucia; Grenada.
Grenadines records: Bequia, Quatre, Mustique, Mayero, Union,
Frigate, Petite Martinique (E.U. Exp., No's 60, 158 and 199 (199 in part, with
specimens of
Coenipeta bibitrix).
Method of identification: by comparison with specimens from elsewhere in
the West Indies in my collection identified as this species 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 species is sexually dimorphic, as illustrated, and quite variable
throughout its range. This species
was misidentified by the Exeter University Expedition as 'Acontia tetragona'
(subfamily Acontiinae).
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