''Caribojosia'' is a

monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unisp ...

moth genus in the family

Notodontidae Notodontidae is a family of moths with approximately 3,800 known species. The family was described by James Francis Stephens in 1829. Moths of this family are found in all parts of the world, but they are most concentrated in tropical areas, es ...

. Its only species, ''Caribojosia youngi'', is found in the

Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean. It shares a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and ...

and adjacent

Haiti Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of the Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican ...

. Both the genus and species were first described by John E. Rawlins and James S. Miller in 2008. The larvae feed on mature leaves of '' Passiflora sexflora''.

External links

Species page at Tree of Life projectDioptine Moths of the Caribbean Region: Description of Two New Genera with Notes on Biology and Biogeography (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae: Dioptinae)
Notodontidae Monotypic moth genera {{Notodontidae-stub