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Family Urodidae
Spotted on Apr 22, 2012
Submitted on Apr 22, 2012
14 Comments
Fantastic!
Thanks! I am happy that I was not miles away with my guesses ;-)...
Brilliant info asergio.
Ok, lets go. I did some research about this one, and here is what I found out: Argybee, this cocoon apparently is made of silk, with no visible seams, and not of hairs glued together, as in your spot. According to several sites in the internet, there are four genus of moths, all belonging to family Urodidae, that build such thing, but only two are found in neotropical areas, Urodus and Spiladarcha. So, until I get more info about it, I'll keep it as a member of Urodidae family.
C'mon, Argy, I don't have so many twice spots...
Cool find!! But remember I wrote in the one from the link: it might be... since I have seen such things in Urodidae. In the meanwhile I have seen some others. but didn't find any clue.
Superb!
Amazing,,
Nopayahnah & Karen, thank you.
Not surprised Sergio. You must have shot every Brazillian creature twice by now :)
Yes, Argybee, they are very similar. But (and there is always a but...), I once spoted this:
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/853...,
that was ID'd as a webworm pupa. I'll try to get a firm ID on this, thanks for the suggestion.
Great find asergio. Might be something like this...
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/816...
Very cool!
Amazing!