MOTHS OF JAMAICA
SPECIES LISTS BY FAMILY
Pyralidae: Dichogaminae
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SUBFAMILY DESCRIPTION
the subfamily DICHOGAMINAE is an almost exclusively neotropical subfamily of quite
lare species, whose larvae are leaf-spinners on the plant genus Capparis. Heppner (1995)
lists 19 named species in this subfamily from the Neotropics.
JAMAICAN SPECIES
I catalogue four species of this subfamily from Jamaica. Click on any underlined
species name to go to a colour
illustration of the adult
(and sometimes its genitalia) and brief information on
the species.
The genus Dichogama
Dichogama decoralis Walker 1866
Dichogama innocua Fabricius 1793
Dichogama redtenbacheri Lederer 1863
The genus Alatuncusia
Alatuncusia bergii Moeschler 1890
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