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Theages decora
There are 6 Theages species, all of which are neotropical in distribution. They are characterised by having marbled wings with dark veins, and their abdomens are tipped with orange. Most species also have a pair of small orange spots behind the head. Theages decoram is distributed from Guatemala to Peru and south-east Brazil.
This species is found in rainforest and cloudforest at elevations between about 400-2000m.
Pam, i know nothing about neotropical moth taxonomy :-) thanks bayucca for the research!
thank you bayucca. So I'll return it to Nuwan's original suggestion. Naming some of these moths is quite complicated, isn't it? Thanks for all your research.
I did a research about the correct name. It seems that we have a conflict. EOL and Bold, usually reliable and trustable resource have it as Eucereon and according to Ollerenshaw 2011 it is Theages.
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/r...
I do not know which one is no the correct one, I guess it is Theages decorata, since this is the most recently updated. Sometimes it takes quite a longtime for updating such huge databases like EOL and BOLD. I will leave a comment on the EOL page that they check the names once more.
thanks bayucca. Nuwan I changed the name to the one bayucca suggested. What do you think?
To my knowledge, this one is now called Eucereon decoram:
http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Tax...
http://eol.org/pages/29474375/overview
Spotted on Jul 13, 2013
Submitted on Aug 13, 2013
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