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Tiger moth

Family Arctiidae, Isia alcumena

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Description:

ID thanks to Doug Yanega and bayucca.

1 Species ID Suggestions

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bayucca
bayucca 9 years ago
Tiger Moth
Hypercompe sp. BOLD Systems: Taxonomy Browser - Hypercompe {genus}


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8 Comments

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bayucca
bayucca 9 years ago

Sergio, it is Hypercompe steinbachi! Sorry, no link, only a wrong one from bold and a drawing from Seitz.

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Sergio Monteiro
Sergio Monteiro 9 years ago

Danke bayucca; Yes, Cindy, it was taking a nap... :-)

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CindyBinghamKeiser
CindyBinghamKeiser 9 years ago

Beautiful moth. Did you find it during the day?

James McNair
James McNair 9 years ago

Great shots Sergio, beautiful moth

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AntónioGinjaGinja
AntónioGinjaGinja 9 years ago

Great find Xará,just beautiful,congrats and thanks for sharing

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bayucca
bayucca 9 years ago

Or Hyphantria sp.? Same one, but only a tentative ID.
http://www.insetologia.com.br/2013/04/ma...
http://bugguide.net/node/view/453/bgimag...
A little bit sceptic, I would still tend to Hypercompe sp., though, without really knowing why...

DrNamgyalT.Sherpa
DrNamgyalT.Sherpa 9 years ago

OMG, Sergio, what great colours and patterns!

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bayucca
bayucca 9 years ago

Erebidae, Arctiinae, Arctiini and probably Hypercompe sp. as closest guess??

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Sergio Monteiro
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Sergio Monteiro

State of Paraná, Brazil

Spotted on Nov 26, 2014
Submitted on Nov 28, 2014

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