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Pseudatteria leopardina
A colourful day-flying metalmark moth - around 1-2 cm body. Who said moths were dull?
Side of the Manu Road through rainforest and where a stream crossed the road. Altitude around 1400 m.
One of many great day-flying moths seen in this region, but very few were metalmarks. ID would be very welcome.
Spotted on Nov 16, 2016
Submitted on Jan 11, 2017
33 Comments (1–25)
Your welcome, Les Catchick....
Thanks (belatedly) to dandoucette and to maplemoth662.
It is one of the 9 moths on my new display photo at home - hard to choose 9.
A beautiful photo....a beautiful moth....
Stunning!
Thank you.
congrats on spotting of the wek
Thanks Polilla.
I am tending to upload insects that I like but have no idea what they are on this site. Few are as appealing to me as this one.
Thanks for telling me how to search Daniele.
I can't see it Mark!
Hi Les! The criteria for nomination and voting in SOTW are listed in the nomination comment you received. For searches, there is a Search bar under the Organisms page. Type in metalmark moth and you'll get lots of hits. You can also search from Google using Project Noah + any keyword of your choice.
Thanks triggsturner, Gilmar and DrN.
Clearly being chosen for whatever reason for SOTW gives photos far more coverage.
I have not yet worked out how I could search for thongs on Project Noah as I would like to see other metallic moths.
Congrats Les Catchick for the SOTW!
Congratulations, Les Catchick. Great spotting!
Nice one Les, congrats on your SOTW.
Done :)
Hello to all, if you could also help me to ID this
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/523...
Thanks for responding.
Though this was my star day-flying moth, I saw so many I really like that I think I will start to upload a few more over the coming weeks.
Congratulations Les ! Looks like an African chieftain with a cat skin cloak.
and yes, I am related to Mark; he's my husband.
Thanks Leauba (related to Mark?), Sergio and Mark.
It was my favourite of very many nice day-flying moths seen on the trip.
Fabulous moth. Congratulations Les.
Congratulations Les.
Congratulations Les, this striking moth has been voted Spotting of the Week!
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beautiful !
Thanks. I had not picked up that information. Not often moths (as opposed to butterflies) are used.
ID looks good to me Les. Did you notice it was used on one of Paraguay's postal stamps? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudatter...
Thanks. The moth is great but I can't say that about my information on it!