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Photo by timmmymooring
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Species ID Suggestions

Orizaba Silkmoth

Rothschildia orizaba

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bayucca
Please, update your ID, thanks!
bayucca
Do you have any idea of the altitude of the location you found this one??
The Well-read Naturalist
It looks very much like an Atlas Moth, Attacus atlas (http://eol.org/pages/385381/overview) but I'm not aware of that species being found in Central America so I don't want to make a formal ID suggestion.
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PublishedJuly 27, 2012

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