also from South/Central America. This small genus of
larger-sized moths presently numbers 5 species. The last
one being described in 1948.
As seen below, they too have a shapely wing design. Males
like mine have a prominent tail present. Females are far
less often present in private collections.
This Titaea sp. has a wingspan of 6 inches and like many
moths in this size range --- finding suitably nice/clean
examples is no easy thing !
I have a friend who was in Ecuador for some 10 days and
over that time he collected 12 specimens (all males) and
only 1 in the whole lot was fresh and still in great shape.
The rest were in A2 condition or worse....
