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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.
Montane cloud forest
Actually I don't know the updated taxonomy. It is Apotelodidae as an own family or Bombycidae and Apatelodinae as the subfamily.
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.
Bombycidae, Apatelodinae, Apatelodes sp..
http://boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrow...