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caterpillar

Description:

I had captured the photograph at Magraha, West Bangal, India. Looks like the caterpillar of Acraea terpsicore, or the tawny coster butterfly almost ready for metamorphosis ( This description is suggested by Sukanya Datta).

1 Species ID Suggestions

gssoman85
gssoman85 3 years ago
Tawny coster
Acraea terpsicore Acraea terpsicore - Wikipedia


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1 Comment

SukanyaDatta
SukanyaDatta 4 years ago

Looks like the caterpillar of Acraea terpsicore, or the tawny coster butterfly almost ready for metamorphosis.
See the life cycle here and update if you agree.
http://butterflycircle.blogspot.com/2013...

Bittu Baidya
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Bittu Baidya

Magrahat-II, West Bengal, India

Spotted on Nov 19, 2019
Submitted on Nov 19, 2019

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