1. Lebendfotos

1.1. Falter

2. Biologie

2.1. Nahrung der Raupe

• [Fabaceae:] Adesmia spinosissima [Typenzucht]
• [Asteraceae:] Baccharis tola [Vargas (2023)]
• [Solanaceae:] Fabiana ramulosa [Vargas (2023)]

3. Weitere Informationen

3.1. Typenmaterial

Vargas (2022: 4): “HOLOTYPE, male, CHILE: Chile, Parinacota, Murmuntani, adult emerged May 2021, ex larva collected April 2021 on Adesmia spinosissima, H.A. Vargas leg.; IDEA-LEPI-2022-011; genitalia slide HAV-1529 (MNNC). Paratypes, Chile. Three females, same data as for holotype, except for M. Vargas-Ortiz leg.; IDEA-LEPI-2022-012 to IDEA-LEPI-2022-014; genitalia slides HAV-1518, HAV-1530,´HAV-1531 (IDEA). One male, Chile, Parinacota, Socoroma, adult emerged January 2020, ex larva collected December 2019 on Adesmia spinosissima, H.A. Vargas leg.; IDEA-LEPI-2022-015; genitalia slide HAV-1345 (IDEA).”

3.2. Literatur

• Erstbeschreibung: Vargas, H. A. (2022): Flightless Females in the Neotropical Moth Genus Cataspilates Warren (Lepidoptera: Geometridae). — Insects 2022 (13): 1-9. [Zum PDF auf mdpi.com]
• Vargas, H. A. (2023): Larval polyphagy of Cataspilates marceloi (Lepidoptera, Geometridae), a Neotropical geometrid moth with flightless females. — ZooKeys 1186: 285-292. [Zum PDF auf zookeys.pensoft.net]