Doryodes insularia Hampson, 1904

Lafontaine, J. Donald & Sullivan, J. Bolling, 2015, A revision of the genus Doryodes Guenee, 1857, with descriptions of six new species (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Catocalinae, Euclidiini), ZooKeys 527, pp. 3-30 : 23-24

Taxon classification Animalia Lepidoptera Erebidae

Doryodes insularia Hampson, 1904 Fig. 32

Doryodes insularia Hampson, 1904: 174.

Type material.

Syntype ♂, Nassau, Bahamas, BMNH, examined.

Diagnosis. Doryodes insularia is unique in the genus because of small size (forewing length: 12.5 mm), the white lines bordering the longitudinal dark stripe on the forewing are thicker than those of any other species, there is a contrasting orange-brown band below the forewing costa and another one below the white line bordering the lower margin of the black stripe, and occurrence in the Bahamas. The species is known only from the type series. The type material in the Natural History Museum, London, has not been dissected.

Distribution and biology.

Bahamas. Nothing is known of the biology of Doryodes insularia .