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Owlet Moth

Spirama Retorta

Description:

First it Looked like malabar glad eye bushbrown http://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/sp/880/... because of its 2 eye like structures. could anyone please help to identify it ? It also resembled Owl moth because of its 2 eyes ! Finally found out that it is Owlet moth , Thanks to Sukanya and pics in http://www.treknature.com/gallery/Asia/I... which looks exactly alike the above pic.

Notes:

Spotted in my PG around 7:00 AM in the morning.

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5 Comments

SukanyaDatta
SukanyaDatta 8 years ago

You are welcome. Can you help with this one?
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/406...

Thanks a lot Sukanya. Found one more pic which resembles the pic above.
http://www.treknature.com/gallery/Asia/I...

Thanks for the correction and ID.

Thanks. It resembles owl moth as well. But looks different from my previous spotting of owl moth i.e
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/873...

Also size looks much smaller than owl moth. Some other sub species of owl moth ?

SukanyaDatta
SukanyaDatta 8 years ago

https://bibekacharya.wordpress.com/2013/...
This one is a close match but no taxonomic name provided...let's see if I can gt it.

SukanyaDatta
SukanyaDatta 8 years ago

NO, I am thinking more Owl moth.

Karnataka, India

Spotted on May 15, 2015
Submitted on May 15, 2015

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