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Possible larvae of the Limacodidae family. Larvae are typically very flattened, and instead of prolegs they have suckers. The thoracic legs are reduced, but always present and they locomote by rolling waves rather than walking with individual prolegs. They even use a lubricant, a kind of liquified silk, to locomote on.
Thanks to leads from LivanEscudero and Goody, more or less narrowed it down to the Limacodidae family. Would really like to know what this is.
It's wonderful and beautiful how life manage to appear in every form, even the weirdest. :)
Hi Goody/ Livan,
Thank you for the ID suggestion. At least it gives sheds a bit of light but feel its still a long search ahead.
Livan, as you aptly mentioned, the picture in the link is identical but the info does not positively identify it.
About above ID. While it is a caterpillar from the Limacodidae family, I can not find any reference to a particular species. The photo on the ref. web site is just like yours... but, the accompanying info is general found on other web sites, and I don't think specific to your species.
I gathered its some sort of slug/mollusk but unlikely to be a caterpillar. The underside was more snail-like.
Reminds me of a slug-like caterpillar. A quick Web search hasn't pulled up much for your part of the world.
Hi Gerardo. Neither. It was in a rainforest and stuck to my car window! I have no idea how it got there.
Lat: 3.71, Long: 101.73
Spotted on Feb 25, 2012
Submitted on Feb 27, 2012
