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Phobetron sp
Very strange caterpillar, eating Papaya leaf
Posible Rain Forest, I found it at my back yard, close to San Jose city In Costa Rica
Spotted on Sep 9, 2007
Submitted on Apr 27, 2011
2 Comments
Thanks so much I am getting close now with the genus Phobetron sp
Looks like a "monkey slug." It might be in the family Limacodidae, it's the only family I know of with caterpillars like that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limacodidae....