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Asota heliconia
This moth has yellow color of head and thorax with some black spots on the thorax. The upper side of thorax is hairy. The upperside of wings is greyish brown with white central wedge from base to post median. The wing span is about 60mm.
urban forest
Spotted on Jul 20, 2014
Submitted on Sep 8, 2014
3 Comments
Nice series showing different views of the moth.
hi ma'am EmilieChich thank you for your comment just confused about the color of heliconia it says color orange but the one i captured was yellow so i choose caricae, but after checking your link again i saw the difference between the discription of the wings. i had edited it done. thanks
I think this is one of the many subspecies of Asota heliconia. Take a look at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asota_helic...