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Cossid moth

Cossidae; Langsdorfia sp

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Species ID Suggestions

Cossid Moth

Cossidae; Langsdorfia sp.

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Hi Augusto Patiño Ramirez, As you can see, my I.D. Suggestion only provides the Genus Langsdorfia. I have not been able to identify the Species of your moth. Your second photo looks close to Langsdorfia franckii Hübner, 1824, but your first photo has some colours which make it look different. Wikipedia lists 25 species in the Genus Langsdorfia, but only 5 of them are present in Colombia. They are: Langsdorfia andensis Felder, 1874 Langsdorfia bellaria Dognin, 1911 Langsdorfia coresa Schaus, 1901 Langsdorfia franckii Hübner, 1824 Langsdorfia rufescens Druce, 1901 Unfortunately, Wikipedia has no Pictures of any of these moths. If you look in https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/423931-Langsdorfia/browse_photos... You will see that some of the photos look like the moth in your second picture. There are also two Spottings in Project Noah which show Langsdorfia Moths. They seem to be of similar style, but they have different colouring and markings: https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/1551023222... and https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/13944956... I think this one might be rather difficult to identify to species level.

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