''Dalcera haywardi'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

in the family Dalceridae. It is found in northern

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

. The habitat probably consists of warm temperate moist forests. The

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is 34–38 mm. Adults are very similar to ''

Dalcera abrasa ''Dalcera abrasa'' is a moth in the family Dalceridae. It is found in Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Peru and Bolivia. The habitat consists of tropical wet, tropical moist, tropical dry, tropical premontane wet, ...

'', but with a scarlet spot in the anal area of the forewings. Adults have been recorded on wing in October., 1994: Systematics of the Neotropical moth family Dalceridae (Lepidoptera). ''Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology'' 153(4): 1–495. Full Article

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Moths described in 1961 Dalceridae Moths of South America {{Dalceridae-stub