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Aloa lactinea
40mm long. Wings pure white with some black dots spread simetrically. Border intense red, rounding the head. White leggs, black feet. Family: Arctiidae Subfamily: Arctiinae Tribe: Spilosomini Genus: Aloa Species: A. lactinea Binomial name Aloa laetata
Tropical forest; close to the seaside (South Sea Of China).
Synonyms: Phalaena lactinea Cramer, 1777 Bombyx sanguinolenta Fabricius, 1793 Aloa marginata Moore, 1883 Rhodogastria frederici Kirby, 1892 Aloa sanguinolenta Moore, 1882 Amsacta lactinea Hampson, 1901 Creatonotus negritus Hampson, 1894
We have this moth on Siargao island .The body is a beautiful red.
The caterpillar is like a "woolly bear" ; brown and black.
charlie
Thanks, Gerardo. "Aizpuru"... Could be we were neighbors? (I was born in Bilbao)