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Description:

This moth is about 4 cm wide and was found in a gas station close to Cosanga, in the slopes of the Andes to the Amazon.

Habitat:

Montane cloud forest

1 Species ID Suggestions

bayucca
bayucca 11 years ago
Bombycid Moth
Apatelodes sp.


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3 Comments

bayucca
bayucca 11 years ago

Actually I don't know the updated taxonomy. It is Apotelodidae as an own family or Bombycidae and Apatelodinae as the subfamily.

GustavoMorejon
GustavoMorejon 11 years ago

Definitively Apatelodes ... One question Dominik : The family is now Apatelodidae ? I ask it because I have it like Apatelodidae on the Butterflies of Ecuador of Piñas.

bayucca
bayucca 11 years ago

Bombycidae, Apatelodinae, Apatelodes sp..
http://boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrow...

GustavoMorejon
Spotted by
GustavoMorejon

Cosanga, Provincia de Napo, Ecuador

Spotted on Mar 9, 2013
Submitted on Mar 9, 2013

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