Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Caribbeana bichorda (Hampson)
Heterocampa bichorda Hampson, 1901
Explanation of Names
Caribbeana bichorda (Hampson, 1901), n. comb., Miller et al. (2021)
(1), was formerly placed in the genus
Rifargia.
Identification
"Head and thorax grey-white, mixed with black scales; palpi black at sides; patagia with a black line at tips ; metathorax with two black points; tibia and tarsi irrorated with black, the latter with black points; abdomen white, thickly irrorated with fuscous on dorsal surface. Forewing grey-white, thickly irrorated with fuscous ; a double waved subbasal fuscous line from costa to submedian fold, then with oblique streak from its extremity to vein 1; a double antemedial line, sinuous towards costa and inner margin; a double discoidal lunule; a double waved postmedial line, angled outwards below costa and at vein 4, then incurved, and with an oblique black shade beyond it from costa to vein 6; a slightly sinuous subterminal black line, angled outwards to termen at veins 3 and 2. Hindwing white, with some brown irroration on termen and a fuscous mark at tornus." --Hampson, 1901 (See print references below).
Range
USA: Southern tip of Florida
(1)
Type locality: Nassau, Bahamas.
Food
Swietenia mahagani, West Indian Mahogany (family Meliaceae)
Print References
Hampson, G. 1901. Lepidoptera-Phalaenae of the Bahamas.
The Annals and Magazine of Natural History; Zoology, Botany, and Geology (7) 7 (39):
251.
