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Polilla tigre

Amastus aconia

Description:

Polilla de la familia Erebidae.

Habitat:

Bosque subtropical perturbado.

Notes:

Autor de la foto: Billo Zamudio Palestino.

1 Species ID Suggestions

bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago
Tiger Moth
Amastus aconia BOLD Systems: Taxonomy Browser


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3 Comments

Billo-kun
Billo-kun 10 years ago

Awesome! thank you so much! @bayucca & @RiekoS :'D

RiekoS
RiekoS 10 years ago

Very nice spotting.

bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago

Erebidae, Arctiinae, Arctiini, Amastus sp. and most probably Amastus aconia, probably the subspecies Amastus aconia rumina, which was formerly a singel species Amastus rumina, but now considered a subspecies of Amastus aconia.
http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Pub...
Amastus aconia aconia: http://www.flickr.com/photos/75374522@N0...
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CCV79xooqh8/UU...
http://www.biolib.cz/cz/image/id205639/
http://szmn.eco.nsc.ru/Lepidop/images/Am...
Rumina: http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Tax...

Billo-kun
Spotted by
Billo-kun

Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico

Spotted on Jul 28, 2013
Submitted on Aug 8, 2013

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