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Project Noah Nature School
Medical Entomologist and nature lover with a special passion for insects.
San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico
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Hi Mark, I didn't even venture a guess on this one, especially because of how it looked from the side. But Juan Carlos Garcia Morales of iNaturalist gave an ID as the subfamily Larentiinae of the Geometridae. Go figure!
Does look like lots of the Larentiinae on the web, shaped like this one: http://gallery.kunzweb.net/main.php?g2_i....
So this is the Oak the Kermes Scale feeds on?!
The ant is "tending" the scale in exchange for the sweet excrement that the scale produces.
If you look up Heliconia, you'll find which one this is easily...
I found the male of this species 2 days later and have added him.
Thank you Ashley for the honor of the nomination.
May be a nymphal Psocid covering itself with fungi?
