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Field Notes

Habitat:

Amazon rainforest. Forest floor.

Notes:

Butterfly observed on July 5, 2014 at the Amazon Conservatory of Tropical Studies (ACTS), Peru.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (1)
Davidbygott
This looks to be a day-flying moth, Geometridae > Sterrhinae > genus Smicropus or Atyria or Cyllopoda or Atyriodes. There's a bunch of species that look like this. The yellow sides to abdomen in your specimen may be a useful feature.

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