@article {16825, title = {The large moths of Guana Island, British Virgin Islands: a survey of efficient colonizers (Sphingidae, Notodontidae, Noctuidae, Arctiidae, Geometridae, Hyblaeidae, Cossidae)}, journal = {Journal of the Lepidopterists{\textquoteright} Society}, volume = {56}, year = {2002}, month = {2002}, pages = {9-44}, chapter = {9}, abstract = {

\"An illustrated and annotated list of large moths of Guana, a 297 ha island located on the north side of the Caribbean island of Tortola, British Virgin Islands, is presented. Of the 148 species listed, 98 are distributed throughout the neotropics, 41 throughout the Antilles, with some ranging into Florida, and 9 endemic to the Puerto Rican Bank, two of them described here: Catabenoides lazelli, new species, and Perigea gloria, new species. The following new synonyms and new combinations are recognized: Leucania solita Walker, new synonym [= Guen\ée], Kakopoda cincta Smith, new synonym (=K. progenies (Guene)], Drepanopalpia polycyma Hampson, new synonym (=D. lunifera (Butler), new combination], Sphacelodes fusilineatus Walker, revised status, Idaea fernaria (Schaus), new combination, Ptychopoda curtaria Warren , new synonym [=ldaea minuta (Schaus)]. Pterocypha defensata Walker, revised status, is recognized as the senior synonym of P. floridata (Walker), new synonym, reversing a recently published synonymy. A new genus, Catabenoides Poole, new genus, type-species: Laphygma vitrina Walker, is described in an appendix, including C. divisa (Herrich-Schffer), new combination, C. seorsa (Todd), new combination, and C. terens (Walker ), new combination, all by Robert W. Poole. The palatability to birds of two species, Diphthera festiva and Calidota strigosa, was observed and the species were shown to be distasteful.\"

}, keywords = {ARCTIIDAE, BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS, COSSIDAE, GEOMETRIDAE, HYBLAEIDAE, NOCTUIDAE, NOTODONTIDAE, SPHINGIDAE, WORLDMAP1}, url = {https://images.peabody.yale.edu/lepsoc/jls/2000s/2002/2002-56(1)09-Becker.pdf}, author = {Becker, V.O. and Miller, S.E.} }