Dalcerides dulciola
Dalcerides dulciola is a moth in the family Dalceridae. It was described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1914.[1] It is found in southern Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, northern Ecuador and northern Venezuela. The habitat consists of tropical wet, tropical moist, tropical premontane wet and tropical premontane rain forests.
| Dalcerides dulciola | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Dalceridae |
| Genus: | Dalcerides |
| Species: | D. dulciola |
| Binomial name | |
| Dalcerides dulciola (Dyar, 1914) | |
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The length of the forewings is 6–9 mm. Adults are on wing year round.[2]
References
- Dalceridae genus list at Butterflies and Moths of the World of the Natural History Museum
- Miller, S.E., 1994: Systematics of the Neotropical moth family Dalceridae (Lepidoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 153(4): 1–495.
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