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Thank you so much, S Frazier, I really appreciate the ID!
Thank you, Jemma! I think you're right about this one being a juvenile - I don't remember it having wings, but that slipped my mind when posting.
This looks like a conifer from the genus Araucaria, section Eutacta. Here's a link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araucaria Many of the Araucaria species are endemic to New Caledonia, an island east of Australia - could this tree be ornamental rather than native?
Okay, I'll try to look around for more clues as well; I appreciate your assistance! :)
Thank you for the ID, Tushar!
Wonderful spotting, but this moth ought to be listed under "arthropods" rather than "other."
Hi bayucca, I looked at C. brasiliensis sulanus initially but I didn't see the small spot nearest the eye on the ventral hindwing in photos of that species (it seemed to be mostly present in photos of C. telamonius menus, especially the first few photos - see my second reference link), so I ruled it out near the end. I definitely will rethink the ID since the last photo in the link you provided seems extremely similar. I was mostly using the marbling pattern and coloration on the forewing and the spots on the hindwing to compare between species of Caligo. Do you know what the distinguishing features are between the species? All the ID sites I've found don't really give tips for species comparisons, and my local library doesn't have anything helpful. Thank you for the suggestion!
Hi, I checked past spottings and bayucca, you ID'd one of these a year ago here www.projectnoah.org/spottings/11127479 but that one was a male. You also commented with this link http://www.flickr.com/photos/jroldenette... for a female comparison on the same spotting. Looks to me like this one is a female Sematura luna. :)
According to your link, Ashish, the Nymphalidae butterfly you suggested only lives in North America. There seems to be a lot of color variation between the checkerspot species, but the markings of Euphydryas aurinia seem to match this spotting, and the distribution fits.
Small note - the scientific name on the photo linked in the suggestion is wrong; it fomes from the main page of species photos here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Catego...
Other links for E. aurinia are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphydryas_... http://www.lepidoptera.pl/show.php?ID=64... http://www.learnaboutbutterflies.com/Bri...
