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Spotting

Description:

4cm long moth

Habitat:

Tropical forest -altitude 1800mts-

6 Comments

Sergio Monteiro
Sergio Monteiro 11 years ago

Excelent photo! Congratulations.

bayucca
bayucca 11 years ago

Definitely Halysidota sp. and impossible to get closer without the native specimen. There are too many around and the variability within the genus/species is also to be considered.

Fyn  Kynd
Fyn Kynd 11 years ago

If I could "like" your comment I would.

Jacob Gorneau
Jacob Gorneau 11 years ago

I apologize. I meant similar species in Costa Rica.

Jacob Gorneau
Jacob Gorneau 11 years ago

I believe Fyn was referring to Halysidota as the genus, not Lophocampa. Looks a lot like this one, though I am not sure if you have other similar species in Mexico. Halysidota is notorious for being unidentifiable by photos. http://bugguide.net/node/view/217944/bgp...

Fyn  Kynd
Fyn Kynd 11 years ago

Tussock Moth species, Looks a lot like the North American Banded Tussock Moth - Lophocampa caryae.

JuanC.Garcia
Spotted by
JuanC.Garcia

Salitral, San José, Costa Rica

Spotted on Oct 5, 2012
Submitted on Oct 7, 2012

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