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Ruddy Daggerwing Caterpillar

Marpesia petreus

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Description:

A very nice looking caterpillar, i found it feeding from a ficus pumila http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficus_pumil...

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bayucca
bayucca 9 years ago
Ruddy Daggerwing Caterpillar
Marpesia petreus Marpesia petreus (northern segregate) (immatures)


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Ismael Chaves
Ismael Chaves 9 years ago

Thank you very much bayucca for the id

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bayucca
bayucca 9 years ago

Nymphalidae, Cyrestinae, Marpesia petreus.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/94881/bgpa...
http://bugguide.net/node/view/191946/bgp...

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Ismael Chaves
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Ismael Chaves

Heredia, Heredia, Costa Rica

Spotted on Jul 23, 2014
Submitted on Jul 23, 2014

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