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Atlas Moth / Rothschild Silkmoth [subspecies]

Rothschildia hesperus ssp.

Photo by LeonardoMB
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-21.5907, -46.8657

Field Notes

Habitat:

Found it on my gate, on a rural mountainous region between Cerrado and Atlantic Forest.

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Comments (2)

So, bayucca, "common name" isn't like "scientific name". They are not rules stritic. In fact, there is more than one common name to an specie depending on the place, region or culture. In this spott, I put two common names, the first one being a translation of the name in Brazil ("Mariposa Atlas") and the other more common in english. But thanks for the observation.
Atlas Moth is not the common name for this one. Rothschildia Moth would only be correct.

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