Puerto-Rico, Santurce, 9-I-1960, A. Zerkowitz leg.

Horama pretus (Cramer, 1777)

Arctiidae Ctenuchinae

Synonyms

Horama eumolphus (Fabricius)
Horama vespina Harris

Biology and distribution

The rarest Ctenuchinae from the French Antilles: one specimen caught by ourselves at light trap: Guadeloupe; Piton de Sainte-Rose: 11-VI-1983. Very rare, according to Chalumeau and Delplanque: xerophilic zone of Guadeloupe.

Antigua.
Greater Antilles, Jamaica: numerous specimens, Puerto-Rico, St-Thomas, St-John, where many adults moths were mating on Antigonon leptopus (Polygonaceae) (Dan Clark, personal communication).

This species could extend southwards (Chalumeau and Delplanque). (recent data are needed to confirm this).

Similar species

Horama panthalon

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