Male

Guadeloupe, Le Moule, Portes d'Enfer, 19-V-85

Female

Martinique, Anse à l'âne, 26-IX-69 (Coll. INRA Petit-Bourg).

Cydosia nobilitella (Cramer, 1779)

Noctuidae Acontiinae

Synonyms

Cydosia histrio (Fabricius)
Cydosia nobilis (Hübner)
Cydosia submutata (Walker)
Cydosia hilarella (Snellen)
Cydosia brasiliella Guenée
Cydosia cyanella Guenée
Cydosia graciella Guenée
Cydosia jamaicensis Cockerell
Cydosia westwoodi Druce

Biology and distribution

Uncommon in Guadeloupe.
Martinique, Presqu'île de la Caravelle, Anse à l'âne.
Marie-Galante, Les Saintes, Désirade.

St-Kitts, Antigua, Montserrat, Dominica, St-Lucia, St-Vincent, Grenada.
Throughout the Greater Antilles (Jamaica: type specimen of C. jamaicensis; Hispaniola: type specimens of C. submutata, C. cyanella and C. graciella).

From the south of the United States to Argentina and Paraguay.

Legend

Male genitalia (JPG 35 Kb).
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