Banana Waspmoth

[Doug Yanega]

>Can anyone provide the name for and possibly point to any images available
>of the little dark Syntomid moth with the dark metalic green HW bases that
>regularly shows up on imported bananas here the the frigid north ?

I think there's more than one, and they're in the genus Antichloris. The
name "syntomid" is archaic, incidentally. They're Arctiids, subfamily
Ctenuchinae.

Peace,


Doug Yanega       Dept. of Entomology           Entomology Research Museum
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