Feschaeria amycus amycus (Cramer 1779)

González, Jorge M. & Cock, Matthew J. W., 2004, A synopsis of the Castniidae (Lepidoptera) of Trinidad and Tobago, Zootaxa 762, pp. 1-19 : 6

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scientific name	Feschaeria amycus amycus (Cramer 1779)
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Feschaeria amycus amycus (Cramer 1779) View in CoL (Fig. 5)

Schaefferia amycus (Cramer) : Lathy (1923). Castnia amycus (Cramer) : Lathy (1925).

Although Miller (1986) states that the monotypic genus Feschaeria View in CoL is restricted to southeastern Brazil, it also has been reported in northern South America. Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago ( González 1999; González & Fernández Yépez 1993; Lathy 1925) are the northernmost records for this subspecies. Myers (1931) reports that Darlington reared a castniid from an unidentified bromeliad in the “ Trinidad mountains” (most probably the Northern Range), which F.W. Urich identified as “ Castnia View in CoL sp. near amicus ”. We have not located any material relating to this record, but it seems quite possible that this is a record of F. amycus amycus . The only specimen from Trinidad that we have seen was collected by F.C. Urich (the nephew of F.W. Urich) and is now in MJWC. There is a single specimen labeled Tobago in the BMNH, which is the same specimen that Lathy (1923) refers to from the collection of Madame Aimée Horrack de Fournier. This is the only specimen of a castniid that we know from that island.

Material examined: ST. ANDREWS: 1Ψ, Sangre Grande, Sans Souci Estate, Mar 1982, F.C. Urich ( MJWC); TOBAGO: 1Ψ, ( BMNH).

References

Gonzalez, J. M. & Fernandez Yepez, F. (1993) Lista preliminar de las especies de Castniinae (Lepidoptera: Castniidae) del Parque nacional Henri Pittier , Venezuela. Diagnosis y comentarios. Memoria de la Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales La Salle, 53 (139), 47 - 53.

Gonzalez, J. M. (1999) Castniinae (Lepidoptera: Castniidae) from Venezuela. III: Genera represented by only one known species. Diagnosis and comments. Ciencia (Maracaibo), 7 (3), 229 - 235.

Lathy, P. I. (1923) Further notes on the Castniinae in the collection of Madame Gaston Fournier (Lepidoptera). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 9, 12 (68), 223 - 227.

Lathy, P. I. (1925) The Castniidae (Lepidoptera) of Trinidad and Tobago. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 9, 16, 242 - 243.

Miller, J. Y. (1986) The taxonomy, phylogeny, and zoogeography of the Neotropical Castniinae (Lepidoptera: Castnioidea: Castniidae). Ph. D. thesis. University of Florida, Gainesville, USA, 571 pp.

Myers, J. G. (1931) A preliminary report on an investigation into the biological control of West Indian insect pests. Empire Marketing Board 42, London, 172 pp.