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Sturniidae
Wingspan should me more a less 20 cm has you can compare with my finger.
Brazilian Amazon
This was my first encounter with these type of enormous moth so I was fascinated by it.
Spotted on Jul 1, 2014
Submitted on Mar 4, 2015
5 Comments
Hi everybody thank you a lot for your suggestions =)
Wonderful spotting. It appears like a snake’s hood on the corner edges of the moth’s forewings.
I agree with Saturniidae.
Rhescynthis sp. Saturnidae ?
Is this a type of cecropia moth? We have those in North America.