Emerald butterfly caterpillar

Philaethria wernickei

Notes:

I found this beautiful caterpillar dead, hanging by a silk line (photo #3)

1 Species ID Suggestions

EarlyStages 11 years ago

"Emerald Butterfly"

Philaethria wernickei http://www.scielo.br/pdf/rbent/v54n3/08.pdf

3 Comments

Sergio Monteiro 11 years ago

Thank you very much for this ID, EarlyStages. The interesting thing about this caterpillar is: I go to several areas to make my photos. At one of them, Philaethria butterflies are very common, I spotted some of them, like http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/907... , and even found one laying an egg: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/907... , but I never saw its caterpillar there. And, in the place I spotted this cat., I never saw a butterfly of that species...