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Red-dotted Emerald Moth

Comostola laesaria

Description:

Torquoise blue back, half yellow half red sopts on the wings, yellow and red eye like rings one each on the four wings. Body length: 18 mm; wingspan: 28 mm.

Notes:

Spotted on a warm afternoon perching on the side partition of my roof waterdrain pipe.

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Geometrid moth
Comostola sp. Comostola


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4 Comments

DrNamgyalT.Sherpa
DrNamgyalT.Sherpa 10 years ago

Thanks suzmonk, Jakubko, Nuwan,Sergio Monteiro, Reza for making favourite.

DrNamgyalT.Sherpa
DrNamgyalT.Sherpa 10 years ago

Thanks Nuwan for the ID. I'll edit my soptting.

DrNamgyalT.Sherpa
DrNamgyalT.Sherpa 10 years ago

Thanks Rebecca for the comments. I spotted this beauty on the side of the roof water drain (red background) on a sunny afternoon. When I started taking some shots it got irritated (?) and flew onto a wall. The first picture is in fact, this beauty against the wall.

rebecca71003
rebecca71003 10 years ago

thats beautiful

DrNamgyalTSherpa
Spotted by
DrNamgyalTSherpa

Gangtok, Sikkim, India

Spotted on Nov 1, 2013
Submitted on Nov 1, 2013

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