Guadeloupe, Petit-Bourg, Hauteurs Lézarde, 30-XII-83.

Oxydia vesulia (Cramer, 1782)

ssp. alternata (Warren, 1905)

Geometridae Ennominae

Synonyms or individual forms

vesuliata Guenée
vesuliata Hulst
antilliana Prout

Biology and distribution

Larva reported on Citrus.

Guadeloupe and Martinique.

St-Kitts, Dominica (type specimen of O. v. alternata).
Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto-Rico, Florida: O. v. transponens (Walker)

From Mexico to Brazil: O. v. vesulia.

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Similar species

Oxydia brevipecten: prodruding forewing outline, male antennae shortly pectinated (filiform in O. vesulia).

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