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Variable cracker

Hamadryas feronia

Description:

1 1/4" long caterpillar

Habitat:

Rainforest

1 Species ID Suggestions

bayucca
bayucca 11 years ago
Variable Cracker
Hamadryas feronia


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9 Comments

bayucca
bayucca 11 years ago

Cool!! I love Thomas and his pictures!! Catman, sounds also cool ;-)... Thanks again for your challenges!

EarlyStages
EarlyStages 11 years ago

Yes, none other than your compatriot Thomas Marent (I've had the pleasure of seeing many of his remarkable images at high resolution). Happy holidays, Catman!

KarenL
KarenL 11 years ago

Thanks again guys! Apologies though, I am right our of neo tropical butterflies for you to gamble on!

bayucca
bayucca 11 years ago

Thanks, Keith!! I hope I can keep my luck in 2013! Do you know who took this my reference picture? Looks like being a Swiss guy.

EarlyStages
EarlyStages 11 years ago

Thanks Dominik, and good job! Yes, the search function on Janzen's database often doesn't work, but even if it did, you'd see Hamadryas "farinulenta" rather than H. feronia. A friend shot your reference photo in a butterfly house, so here's the same species from elsewhere sans any distracting watermark . . .
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9923141@N04...
BTW, with its caterpillar unknown (at least to me) and adults reported from both slopes of the Ecuadorian Andes, H. fornax is also possible.

bayucca
bayucca 11 years ago

I would never cheat....
http://www.masterfile.com/stock-photogra...
I earlier wanted to add a link from Janzen, but could'nt find any record at all ( also other genus/species, don' t know why). Then I obviously forget to add the link.

EarlyStages
EarlyStages 11 years ago

No cheating, Dominik. Please share your supporting reference.

KarenL
KarenL 11 years ago

Thanks Dominik!

bayucca
bayucca 11 years ago

Keith, I take the double ;-)...

KarenL
Spotted by
KarenL

Parroquia Taracoa, Provincia de Orellana, Ecuador

Spotted on Dec 5, 2012
Submitted on Dec 8, 2012

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