Santa Rita Arriba is a
town in the
Colón province of
Panama. This locality has a particular tropical forest and mountainous ecosystem; with elevation of 200 m above sea level. It is near the Panama Canal lakes and the Trinidad River. The area holds an important diversity of insects, and as a result, recently has been described a new rare moth of the genus
Pavolechia.
Sources
World Gazetteer: Panama– World-Gazetteer.com
* Heppner, J.B. and Corro-Chang, P. 2017. Panama moth notes, The Neotropical Genus Pavolechia (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae: Anacampsinae). Lepidoptera Novae, 10(1-2): 67–70.
Populated places in Colón Province
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