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About a hand's wide... I found this beautiful creature inside our office. Probably got in when the windows were left open overnight.
Thank you Bayucca! Sorry for the really late reply, I just remembered my upload when I saw Project Noah's moth month on Twitter!
Thanks! (- -,)V
Welcome to ProjectNoah lendlklein! You can edit this spotting by adding bayucca's suggestion as a starting point. Hopefully other will also help with the ID.
That was one of the heaviest one I ever IDed. It is against all rules not a Saturniidae, but a Eupterotidae, both from the superfamily Bombycoidea. ID down to species is probably not possible. Resources are very sparce.
There are 3 pictures of the same one on the net. The one from the link is #3 based on the ID of #2 which is unfortunately wrong!
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/683...
Some other species:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/17487183@N0...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/17487183@N0...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/17487183@N0...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sachingurul...
Spotted on Dec 20, 2011
Submitted on Apr 14, 2012
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