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Palpita quadristigmalis
A striking gossamer moth with brown along the outer wing margin. It has delicate yellow patterning on the abdomen, 1 cm long. Family Crambidae.
Came to an ultraviolet light in the garden, San Cristobal de Las Casas, 2,200 meters.
This might be the same species (?) and a male, as a previous spotting (http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/337...), although this one lacks the full row of black spots along the lower margin of the wings and also has a pattern on the abdomen that the previous spotting lacks.
Thank you bayucca! That is dead-on, exactly it! Even with the abdominal pattern. Does that mean that the other one mentioned above in my notes is something else?
Spotted on Mar 12, 2014
Submitted on Mar 13, 2014
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