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It's a small brown millipede of some type!
Nuwan's identification looks spot on to me! It's really a charismatic group of moths--nice spotting! :)
That's a moth alright! It looks like a member of the family Sphingidae:
http://eol.org/pages/905/overview
Whoops! I meant "Tenthredinidae"!
Looks like a tenthridinid larva!
Larva: https://www.google.com/search?q=tenthred...
Adult: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenthredini...
Ugh!! I'm searching as hard as I can, but the only thing I could seem to find that looks close was this little critter:
http://www.diptera.info/photogallery.php...
But I'm not sure that it's in your geographic distribution! Or if it's a close match--the family Xylophagidae is very small.
Wow!! So cool! It's some kind of fly for sure, as it has a pair of halteres instead of hind wings.
It kinda looks like Staghorn Sumac (Rhus typhina), but it's hard to be completely sure without looking at the rest of the shrub!
