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Lasiocampid Moth

Tolype caieta

Description:

It was very beautiful, very hairy also. it came to my glass door so I got a picture of the front (inside) it looked very funny with those black marks around the eyes, for some reason it reminded me of the Rock group...KISS... : o

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Lasiocampid
Tolype caieta Tolype caieta -- Discover Life


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2 Comments

Thank you so much for the ID, PhilipBarnette.

PhilipBarnette
PhilipBarnette 10 years ago

I can hardly ever find common names for our Costa Rican moths! If it were up to me, I'd be more than okay with this as a Common KISS moth.

http://boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrow...

Costa Rica

Spotted on Aug 4, 2013
Submitted on Oct 17, 2013

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