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Description:

This extraordinary moth mimics a dead leaf so well that it fooled me more than once!

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23 Comments

ToshimiDowaki
ToshimiDowaki 10 years ago

Amazing moth!

Sergio Monteiro
Sergio Monteiro 10 years ago

joacog1, Jolly Ibanez, StephenSolomons & surekha, thank you. @Leonardo: obrigado.

Leonardo Castro
Leonardo Castro 10 years ago

Inacreditavelmente perfeita e exótica!! Congratulations for this brilliant spotting, Sergio! I'm sure this a very difficult thing to find...

surekha
surekha 10 years ago

Awesome spotting!!

StephenSolomons
StephenSolomons 10 years ago

wow, nice!!!

Jolly Ibañez
Jolly Ibañez 10 years ago

Wow! what a beautiful find! Nice series Sergio

Sergio Monteiro
Sergio Monteiro 10 years ago

Thank you Luis, Marta, Daniele & Rieko.

LuisStevens
LuisStevens 10 years ago

Amazing discovery Sergio!

The MnMs
The MnMs 10 years ago

Amazing shape!

DanielePralong
DanielePralong 10 years ago

Awesome Sergio!

RiekoS
RiekoS 10 years ago

Wow. This is very unusual. I agree with Adarsha B S. :-)

Sergio Monteiro
Sergio Monteiro 10 years ago

Thank you for the nice comments guys.

Adarsha B S
Adarsha B S 10 years ago

Everytime you bring new kind of species..Sergio, i am telling you, If u had started with photography, when you were 5, you might have exlpored 90 percent of amazon forest unknown species !!!!

It is beautiful, I just do not know how you saw it and figure it was an insect....Moth. : o

KarenL
KarenL 10 years ago

Wow! It had me fooled too Sergio!

Sergio Monteiro
Sergio Monteiro 10 years ago

I live in a wonderful country, Jemma.

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 10 years ago

you seem never to run out of wonders!

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 10 years ago

awesome.

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 10 years ago

HA! I still forget mine sometimes and end up taking pics of dirt, old leaves, sticks.... sigh... old age is just great. :-/

Sergio Monteiro
Sergio Monteiro 10 years ago

I got new glasses, Mark!

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 10 years ago

Fabulous! Didn't fool you.

Billo-kun
Billo-kun 10 years ago

Hermosa! <3

Wow Xará,amazing capture,this is realy an perfect mimetic beahveour,very cool,congrats and thanks for sharing

Sergio Monteiro
Spotted by
Sergio Monteiro

Paraná, Brazil

Spotted on Oct 9, 2013
Submitted on Oct 10, 2013

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