The best way to collect adults is with black or mercury vapor light traps placed next to clean streams or rivers. Distribution records range from southeastern Brazil, through the Amazon region and the Andean countries of Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador, up to northern South America, Central America, and tropical areas of eastern and western Mexico. One species has been described from the Lesser Antilles. Being no exception Chloronia is absent from Chile, and interestingly, there are no records from Argentina. A list of Chloronia species with information on their distribution is available here .
Color is characteristic, pale yellowish green, sometimes waxy.
Wings of several species look patterned because of dark crossveins or spots, but a few look mostly clear. Head and pronotum typically bear two and four dark markings each, but the head may have only a narrow vitta and the pronotum may have only a pair of spots or bands. Maxillary and labial palps are 5 and 4-segmented, respectively. Photograph copyright 1997, Atilano Contreras-Ramos . Larvae of Chloronia are structurally quite similar to those of Corydalus and Platyneuromus .