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Paradirphia semirosea
A second Buck Moth species for San Cristobal de Las Casas. The first three pictures are of the male (taken May 4th 2013), the 4th and 5th pictures are of a female (taken May 17th 2013). The female had much more pink coloring on the wings. Family Saturniidae.
Both came to an ultraviolet light in the garden, San Cristobal de Las Casas, 2,200 meters.
The second picture was taken in the same place on May 4th 2013 and shows it's defensive behavior when touched and the striped abdomen.The 2nd picture is of a remarkably pink phenotype, spotted on May 17th, 2013. These pictures were originally with a previous spotting of a similar species, see the comments by Bill Oehlke, a Saturniid expert: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/147....
Spotted on May 4, 2013
Submitted on Sep 15, 2014
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