First Record of an Exotic Host Plant for the Oligophagous MothMacaria mirthae(Geometridae) in the Coastal Valleys of the Northern Chilean Atacama Desert

A new species of Macaria Curtis (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Ennominae) from the Andes of northern Chile

“…Two species of Macaria have been recorded from Chile (Bartlett-Calvert, 1893a, 1893b; Vargas et al, 2005). Macaria mirthae Vargas, Parra & Hausmann, 2005 was described from the Atacama Desert, in the northernmost part of the country; its larvae feed on leaves of at least four Fabaceae trees and shrubs, including native species and the invasive Leucaena leucocephala (Vargas & Mundaca, 2014). Macaria alba (Bartlett-Calvert, 1893a, 1893b) was described from southern Chile, with type locality in Araucanía.…”