Male

Guadeloupe, Piton de Sainte-Rose, 25-X-1984

Female

Guadeloupe, Petit-Bourg, Meynard, 1-IV-1990

Hyalurga vinosa (Drury, 1773)

Arctiidae Pericopinae

Synonyms

Hyalurga horologica (Goeze)
Hyalurga ergolis (Walker)
Hyalurga domingonis (Butler)
Hyalurga diastilba Hering

Systematics

The individuals from the French Antilles differ slightly from the Hyalurga vinosa specimens in the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris collection, which come from the Greater Antilles. Nevertheless, since the vinosa type specimen was described from Antigua, we consider that Hyalurga specimens from Guadeloupe and Martinique belong to H. vinosa Drury.

Biology and distribution

Larva on Heliotropium indicum.

Guadeloupe: very rare, 12 individuals during 5 years of observations, (8 at Piton de Ste-Rose).
Martinique: very rare.

St-Kitts, Antigua (type specimen).
Jamaica, Dominican Republic.

Legend

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