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Dirce Beauty

Colobura dirce

Description:

About 5cm long in some cases with yellow spines and white dashes along the sides of the body.

Habitat:

Found feeding on the Cecropia peltata tree. This particular tree was a sapling.

Notes:

Very similar to the larvae of the Colobura annulata whose larvae looks like this just with shorter yellow spines and white stripes from left to right across the back of the caterpillars.

1 Species ID Suggestions

bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago
Dirce Beauty
Colobura dirce Colobura d. dirce (immatures)


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1 Comment

celestialprincess101
celestialprincess101 10 years ago

Thank you!

San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago

Spotted on Mar 26, 2014
Submitted on Mar 26, 2014

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