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Dark entirely metallic blue Ctenuchid moth, 1.5 cm long.
Heavy shrubbery along the highway between San Cristobal de Las Casas and Tuxtla Gutierrez, km 11.5, 865 meters.
Spotted on Aug 12, 2013
Submitted on Sep 6, 2013
3 Comments
:S wow looks complicated, I hope @bayucca help us. Thank you so much for the information Lauren :).
Hi Billo, we might both have the same species, it might be Antichloris viridis, the Banana Moth or at least a species of Antichloris. It used to be of the Family Ctenuchidae, but now I see it as a subfamily of Arctiidae, which is now also a subfamily of Noctuidae which is now called Erebidae. A mess. Maybe bayucca can help us with this one. There seem to be lots of species of Antichloris. And, sometimes it gets imported into other countries in banana shipments and is called the Banana Stowaway Moth.
http://eol.org/pages/559288/overview
http://www.northumberlandmoths.org.uk/fa...
http://eol.org/pages/3893052/overview
https://www.birdguides.com/webzine/artic...
Cual es el nombre de la familia de esta polilla Lauren? :/ tengo una que es parecida a la tuya. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/159...