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The Cucumber Moth

Diaphania indica (Saunders, 1851)

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Cucumber Moth
Diaphania indica Diaphania indica


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5 Comments

JordiPrats
JordiPrats 7 years ago

Nice spot, please consider to add to Butterflies and Moths of Indonesia mission: http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/2158...

KarenL
KarenL 11 years ago

Nice spot!

dotun55
dotun55 11 years ago

Great close up!
Severally, I see smaller versions of this in my backyard. They hardly grow up to this size as they're often a victim of a nocturnal white crab spider in the flower they go to nectar. They're always twirling their tail end to dazzle predators.

NuwanChathuranga
NuwanChathuranga 11 years ago

you're welcome!

IanWongkar
IanWongkar 11 years ago

NuwanChathuranga, thank you for the ID.

IanWongkar
Spotted by
IanWongkar

Banten, Indonesia

Spotted on Sep 27, 2012
Submitted on Sep 27, 2012

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