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Mimallonidae
Mineviinae

Menevia ostia (DRUCE, 1898)

Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, French Guiana, Suriname, Venezuela, Peru, Brazil
wet forests
Type locality: Panama, Chiriqui
Menevia ostia can be differentiated from all other species-groups by the gold-yellow to pale yellow ground color with the contrasting silvery gray submarginal area with a small white accessory mark near the tornus. These traits combined with overall very weakly falcate forewings, distinguish M. ostia from the similar M. lantona but not necessarily from the similar M. pallida and M. parostia.
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