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Sacada sp.
This strange looking moth appears bluish chocolate coloured with long chicken legs ending at small hooks. It flies like any other moth! It starts slowly curving its hind part upwards sometime after resting. Length, forelegs to hind wings: 35mm.
Terrace of urban building surrounded by forests.
This strange looking moth was spotted this evening under the terrace light. From the side it appeared as though a small toy is riding a dianosour!
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Thanks Toshimi, I was quite lucky to get this photo angle.
Great find! Gorgeous!
Thanks Leanne, RobThacker, Gilma, Mark, Chunxing, Sukanya, Leana and Sisir for the encouraging comments.
Thanks outsidegirl0 and Dilan for the comments.
congratsDrNamgyalT.Sherpa!!
Amazing shot !!!
congrats!!!
Thanks KarenL for recommending the spotting as MOTM.
Wow! Love this.
Congratulations Dr. Namgya on this awesome spotting and SOTD!
CONGRATULATIONS...this moth is really something...its eye is almost human-ish. So happy to see it has a name now.
What a great MOMM this is !
Congratulations sir. (changing 'snouth' to 'snout' :)
Congratulations on the SOTM of May, DrNamgyalT.Sherpa.
Gorgeous Moth!!
Congrats Namgya, your crazy looking Indian moth is our Moth of the Month for May!
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Wonderful, thank you
What an amazing looking moth. Congrats on your find DrNamgyal!
Thanks Mark for the suggestion. You're right. Going to do the edit.
Sacada sp. (Pyralidae) ??
Sukanya, appears so, 'cause I scanned lists of some great 'mothers', but couldn't spot similar one. Hopefully Nuwan'll come to the rescue!
Thanks Tiz and Pampa for the comments.
Amazing find!
What a find!!! May be it is an undiscovered species....
Amazing find DrNamgya. And great photos of it as well!
Thanks Fynn Kynd, Alan and CyndyBinghamKeiser for making it favourite.