Guardian Nature School Team Contact Blog Project Noah Facebook Project Noah Twitter

A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife

Join Project Noah!
nature school apple icon

Project Noah Nature School visit nature school

Notodontid Moth

Symmerista sp.

Description:

Moth about 2 cm long. Family Notodontidae.

Habitat:

Came to an ultraviolet light in the garden, San Cristobal de Las Casas, 2,200 meters.

1 Species ID Suggestions

Notodontid Moth
Symmerista sp. BOLD Systems: Taxonomy Browser


Sign in to suggest organism ID

2 Comments

LaurenZarate
LaurenZarate 10 years ago

Thank you Jacob, I'll follow your suggestion and leave it at Symmerista sp. Seems to be an Oak feeding species? We do have lots of Oak here.

Jacob Gorneau
Jacob Gorneau 10 years ago

This one looks very close to S. albifrons, but I am not sure.

LaurenZarate
Spotted by
LaurenZarate

Chiapas, Mexico

Spotted on Aug 10, 2013
Submitted on Aug 17, 2013

Related Spottings

Genus Symmerista Prominent Moth caterpillar Red-Humped Oakworm Red-humped Oakworm

Nearby Spottings

Noctuid Moth Moth Broad Nosed Weevil Moth

Reference

Noah Guardians
Noah Sponsors
join Project Noah Team

Join the Project Noah Team