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Arctiidae, Arctiinae, Holophaea sp.
Spotted on Oct 22, 2012
Submitted on Oct 22, 2012
117 Comments (1–25)
Excelente trabalho Sergio !
So, the green and yellow juvenile becomes an orange and black adult. What a stunning transformation.
That's amazing Sergio! Congrats on the ID 🙃 Liana
This is the adult moth of Holophaea vesta, found in Suriname. When adult, my cat must be slightly different from this one, but close enough to give an idea of how it will look like when fully formed: https://www.alamy.com/holophaea-moth-hol...
Congratulations Sergio ! This cheerleader catty definitely deserved its ID to be broadcast. Still makes me smile - those sharp spikes and the soft pompoms !!
Congratulations.
This is wonderful...what is it??Do you have a photo??
Brilliant. Ten years is worth the wait.
That is very cool!!
Finaly, after almost 10 years, I got a true ID for this little beauty, thanks to my friend Francierlem Oliveira.
Jae...your comment put the good in my morning. Thank you for infusing smiles. Sergio, this is wonderful...but the caterpillar is spectacular. Thank you, both.
@Sukanya a cheerleader perhaps :)
SukanyaDatta: Here you have an adult Saurita moth. I don't know if it is the same species, but you can have an idea of what it becomes: https://www.insetologia.com.br/2014/05/m...
I so want to see what it becomes.
WOW! I can't believe, Dominik, you did it again.Yes, you are THE master. After all this time you still remembered it!!! I followed the link you provided and other ones, and I found how other instars of this caterpillar look like, and I think that I must have got it another time: https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings... . Anyway, thank you so, so much my friend.
It looks very nice
Arctiini is safe :-)
http://caterpillars.myspecies.info/file-...
Would love to know more about this guy
Any update on the ID of this beauty Sergio?
No yunseong1, they are rigid but not sharp.
Wow amazing spotting.Are those spikes sharp?
Finally! Hope you'll know it soon! Will the moths have 'pom-pom' too? :D
This is truly one very incredible spotting, new species or not !
I want to see the moth too!
Would love to see the moth!