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Skull-faced caterpillar

Description:

A long hairy Lasciocampidae caterpillar. It's body is covered with black long hairs, white hairs that are facing down and a line of short orange hairs along it's back. Have an orange head with black patterns resembling a fierce skull. Another spotting from Sepilok http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/939...

Habitat:

Kundasang highlands, Sabah.

Notes:

>>>Map accuracy : 50m diameter. Special thanks to Bayucca for the ID suggestion. A close up photo of a skull-faced caterpillar by someone else http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs25/i/2008/1...

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3 Comments

bayucca
bayucca 6 years ago

Welcome! :-)

ChunXingWong
ChunXingWong 6 years ago

Definitely that. Thanks!

bayucca
bayucca 6 years ago

Lasiocampidae??

ChunXingWong
Spotted by
ChunXingWong

Sabah, Malaysia

Spotted on Dec 11, 2009
Submitted on Mar 7, 2012

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