Euchromius Guenée, 1845

Euchromius Guenée, 1845 View in CoL

Occurring in all biogeographical regions of the World except Antarctica and Oceania, this genus of 50 species (Nuss et al., 2024) is most diverse in Africa and least so in Australia and North America, which have one species each, excluding the widespread E. ocellea (Haworth, 1811) . The Neotropical fauna is also rather poorly diversified, with four species only, including the Galápagos endemic E. galapagosalis Capps. With respect to bionomics, the larvae of several species have been found to feed on dead plant leaves, sometimes attacking living tissue ( Schouten, 1992) and the larva of E. ocellea has been mentioned to feed on the roots of Zea mays L. and Sorghum sp. ( Poaceae ) ( Capps, 1966).