American Moth-Butterflies
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hedylidae (Guenée, 1857, nec. Bergh, 1895)
There are 35 recognised species in one genus Macrosoma.
We won't even pretend to have much of a clue about these crazy butterflies which do an amazing job of masquerading as moths! We'll send you to Wikipedia-Hedylidae so you can learn more about them and their relationships to Papilionidae butterflies and Hesperiidae skippers.
Matthew Barnes notes that there are 2 species of Macrosoma on Jamaica. Please visit his website for more information.
We don't have any pictures of live Macrosoma in Jamaica, so instead of showing Barnes' pinned specimens we thought it would be more interesting to show examples from Peru.
http://www.learnaboutbutterflies.com/Andes%20-%20Macrosoma%20sp%204406.htm
