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Dalcerides alba

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Dalceridae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Dalcerides

Dalcerides alba is a moth in the Dalceridae family. It was described by Herbert Druce in 1887. It is found in southern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador. The habitat consists of tropical wet, tropical moist, tropical dry, tropical lower montane wet or moist, tropical premontane wet, tropical premontane moist, subtropical wet and subtropical moist forests.

The length of the forewings is 9–11 mm for males and 13–16 mm for females. The forewings are white with brown submarginal shading, well developed near the anal angle, becoming faint and finally lost toward the apex. The hindwings are white with a brown anal angle. Adults are on wing year-round.

The larvae feed on Colubrina species.

References

Dalcerides alba Wikipedia