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Condica sp.
A chocolate brown moth with a snowflake pattern on the upper wings. About 1.5 cm long. Family Noctuidae, Subfamily Condicinae.
Came to an ultraviolet light, Finca Argovia, Ruta de Café, Soconusco area of southern Chiapas, Mexico, about 1 hour northeast of Tapachula.
Another species (at the time unidentified) of Condica was spotted on December 21 of 2013 (http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/121...), also in the State of Chiapas, Mexico, however it was from an entirely different area, in the mountains at 2,200 meters in a pine-oak forest (and semi-urban) environment. This one is from the tropical south of Chiapas at about 600 meters in the coffee growing region of the Soconusco. The forest is mixed tropical. The snowflake markings are different between the two moths.
Spotted on Nov 18, 2015
Submitted on Apr 8, 2016
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@bayucca, hello. This seems to be a different species of Condica than the one you first identified for me (http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/121...) in 2013. This one is from a lower and much more tropical environment. Are they different?