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Owl/Giant Owl Butterfly

Caligo telamonius memnon

Description:

Brown with spots, wide wingspan, interesting wing patterns

Habitat:

Forests, trees

Notes:

A butterfly that got caught in my room in the evening. After a photo sesion i let it fly out :) It's interesting I found it here, since it's habitat is suppose to be in southern America.

2 Species ID Suggestions

Owl butterfly
Caligo memnon Caligo memnon
bayucca
bayucca 12 years ago
Caligo telamonius memnon


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2 Comments

Ursula
Ursula 12 years ago

thx for the info, bayucca! :)

bayucca
bayucca 12 years ago

Caligo telamonius memnom, Pale Giant Owl Butterfly is the correct name. They do sometimes renaming all these bugs. But the guess from the others is principally OK.

Ursula
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Ursula

Slovenia

Spotted on Aug 21, 2011
Submitted on Sep 15, 2011

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