Anticarsia gemmatalis
Distribution: tropical and subtropical America.
Type locality: Surinam.
Synonyms: Hypernaria detrahens Walker 1858;
Plaxia spilolecua Walker 1858;
Plaxia subducta Walker 1858;
Remigia subsignata Walker 1858;
Thermesia costalis Walker 1858;
Thermesia monstratura Walker 1858;
Hypernaria leucospila Walker 1865;
Thermesia infumata Felder & Rogenhofer 1874;
Thermesia gemina Maassen 1890.
Source of record: listed by Gowdey (1926) p. 67; M.J.C.B. collection.
Method of identification: illustrated in black and white by Kimball (1965)
pl. 17, figs. 13, 14 and 15.
Notes: this is an extraordinarily variable species. A few forms are illustrated.
The larva is the 'Velvetbean Caterpillar'.
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