''Urania poeyi'' is a day-flying

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of the family

Uraniidae The Uraniidae are a family of moths containing four subfamilies, 90 genera, and roughly 700 species. The family is distributed throughout the tropics of the Americas, Africa and Indo-Australia.Carter, David, ''Eyewitness Handbook to Butterflies ...

Distribution

''Urania poeyi'' is found in

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Urania boisduvalii ''Urania boisduvalii'' is a day-flying moth of the family Uraniidae. It was first described by Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville in 1829. A genetic analysis of ''Urania'' moths gave rise to a phylogenetic tree which places ''U. boisduvalii'' as ...

'', which is found throughout the island, this species is restricted to the eastern part of Cuba.''Clutch size variation in Urania boisduvalii''
Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 60(4), 2006, 227–228 However, it is occasionally found in

Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His ...

as a stray. Larvae of this species feed on ''

Omphalea triandra ''Omphalea triandra'', also known as Jamaican cobnut and pop nut is a plant species endemic to Jamaica and Haiti. Larvae of certain species of moths of the genus ''Urania Urania ( ; grc, , Ouranía; modern Greek shortened name ''Ránia' ...

''.Texas Entomology - Urania Natural History
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References

External links

Uraniidae - Yale University
{{Taxonbar, from=Q15652259 Uraniidae Moths described in 1866