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Erebidae
Herminiinae

Rejectaria villavicencia DOGNIN, 1924

Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia
Type locality: Colombia, Villavicencio
Both villavicencia and villosa are sexually dimorphic, but villavicencia less pronouncedly; the paler tannish-brown coloration in the median field of the female FW is more diffuse in villavicencia than in villosa. Male villavicencia are slightly larger than male villosa with more elongate forewings, but the am and pm lines are wavy in both sexes of villavicencia, whereas the pm line in villosa is straight. The reniform spot in villavicencia is light brown, larger than that in villosa, and, in the male of villavicencia, more clearly divided and circumscribed with a black boundary. The am and st lines in villavicencia are discontinuous and less faint than in villosa, and the terminal line is a series of alternating black and orange-brown curved dashes; all lines reappear in the same configuration on the middle third of the HW, as in villosa.
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