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Very nice! It might be a species of Mimallonidae, but I am not very sure.
Sorry, I was wrong with my former ID - this clearly looks much more like Plutella xylostella (see link above).
Hi Rocca, check out http://lepiforum.de/cgi-bin/lepiwiki.pl?... for lasiocampid caterpillars from Europe!
There remains some doubt as I am not familiar with the caterpillar of Agrius godarti.
Hi Shanna! I didn't intend to give a firm determination, but it looks *very* much like Theretra latreillii but I am not fimiliar with the caterpillars of other Theretra species. So I would give it the name Theretra cf. latreillii :-)
@eyespots: the thoracic segments of your caterpillar are somewhat contracted so therefore the eyespots seem to be situated closer to the head. When the thoracic segments are expanded they optically move away from the head. So in fact, the position of the eyespots of your caterpillar and those in the link is the same :-)
Nice finding, this caterpillar looks so funny!
