Proarna insignis Distant, 1881

[ Proarna albida] insignis Distant, 1881a: 12 .

Proarna insignis – Distant 1905c: 141.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — “FRENCH GUIANA: / 12 km W of Risquetout / 5-XII-2002, J. E. Eger / N04°54.673’ W052° / 11.150’ 58 m MV Light”, 1 ♀ (FSCA). — “FRENCH GUIANA: / 8 km W of Risquetout / 2-XII-2002, J. E. Eger / N04°55.097’ W052° / 33.121’, 45 m MV Light”, 2 ♀♀ (FSCA), 1 ♀ (AFSC). — “FR. GUIANA: 13 km / sse of St Laurent / 8-VI-1986, E. G. / Riley & D. A. Rider // collected at / mercury vapor”, 1 ♀ (LSAM), 1 ♀ (AFSC).

DISTRIBUTION. — The species is known from much of the New World tropics being reported from Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, French Guiana, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, and Argentina (Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn et al. 1995a; Sanborn 2006, 2007a, b, 2010a; Thouvenot 2007b).