MOTHS OF JAMAICA
SPECIES LISTS BY FAMILY
Dalceridae
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The Dalceridae are a small family of some 84 species confined to the
New World tropics. Like the Limacodidae and Megalopygidae the adult moths
are small to medium-sized with broad, rounded wings and short, fat hairy
abdomens. This family is distinguished from the other two by various
technical features of which the gelatinous tubercles covering the slug-like
larva are probably the most obvious. This family has been completely revised
and all adults and genitalia illustrated by Miller (1994).
I catalogue only one species of this family from Jamaica, as listed below -
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illustration of the adult, where available, and brief information on
the species.
The genus Acraga
Acraga ciliata Walker 1855
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