Guadeloupe, Saint-François, Anse à la Gourde, 20-XII-1984

Utetheisa pulchella (Linnaeus, 1758)

Arctiidae Arctiinae

Synonym

Utetheisa pulchra (Denis & Schiffermüller)

Biology and distribution

Larva on Heliotropium.

Far less common in the Antilles than Utetheisa ornatrix, but perhaps extending.

Guadeloupe: coastal zones of Grande Terre, Anse à la Gourde, St-François (7 moths caught).
Martinique: Pointe des Salines, Rivière Pilote (Pinchon and Enrico), Colson (Delplanque), Grand Macabou (Ryckewaert).
St-Bartholomew (Pinchon and Enrico).

It is a cosmopolitan species, of African origin, reported from Puerto Rico by Forbes in 1927, discovered in Martinique in 1963 and in Guadeloupe in 1983.

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Similar species

Utetheisa ornatrix

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