genus

Mimophobetron

Field notes

Mimophobetron is a monotypic moth genus of the family Crambidae described by Eugene G. Munroe in 1950. It contains only one species, Mimophobetron pyropsalis, described by George Hampson in 1904, which is found in Central America (Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico, Honduras), the Bahamas and Florida.

Children

Mimophobetron pyropsalis presumed native

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided