Carohamilia poam (Dyar, 1918) comb. n.
Figs. 4−5, 13, 17
Psychonoctua poam Dyar, 1918: 366-367
Material examined: Type material. Holotype ♂: “ Mexico: Prob. State, Veracruz ”, R. Muller Collector, 43-86, U.S. N.M. Type No. 21315, USNMENT 01198207 (USNM) (Fig. 4). — Further material. Belize: 1 ♂, Punta Gorda, June 1933, J.J. White, SLIDE NHMUK 010315488, NHMUK 012832455 (NHMUK) (Fig. 5, 13) .
Literature records (cited by Schoorl (1990)): Guatemala: 8 ♂: various localities (NHMUK) .
Diagnosis. The species differs from the other congeners in the following characters:
- the reticulated pattern is expressed throughout all the forewing;
- the dark area on the forewing at its base is poorly expressed;
- the black discal spot on the fore wing is small;
- on the saccular margin of the valve (in the middle third) a trapezoidal process with a wide base.
Distribution. Mexico, Belize, Guatemala (Schoorl 1990).