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Footman Moth

Lithosiini

Notes:

Another beauty early this morning

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bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago
Footman Moth
Lithosiini


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bayucca, thank you very much, and a great 2014 to you

bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago

Erebidae, Arctiinae, Lithosiini. There are many of them and most of them without an ID. Search is quite confusing. Maybe Johan or Roy might help you more with this one. I did not find a reasonable match. Note that yours is almost bi-colored not uni-colored as it looks for Sozusa scutellata:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S...
http://southafricaninsects.wordpress.com...
http://www.ispot.org.za/node/187923?nav=...
This is most probably the same one as yours:
http://www.ispot.org.za/node/186914?nav=...
Look at the discussion, no clear result but Lithosiini...
Right picture is also some kind of bi-colored:
http://www.ispot.org.za/node/148624
Uni-colored, but not yours, could be Sozusa scutellata?
http://www.ispot.org.za/node/140063?nav=...

Mookgopong Local Municipality, Limpopo, South Africa

Spotted on Dec 31, 2013
Submitted on Dec 31, 2013

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