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Nettle caterpillar, Blue-striped nettle grub

Parasa lepida

Photo by m.prasad.369
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Field Notes

Description:

Measurements : ~2.5cm x 1.5cm
Season : Rainy season
Time : 1:50am 07Jul2021
Frequency : Very rare
Life stage : adult
Gender : Female (threadlike antennae)

Habitat:

Spotted inside the car parking very close to open abandoned area with lot of plants

Notes:

Some moth species from Genus Parasa.

Reference Links:

Parasa lepida - Wikipedia

Species ID Suggestions

Nettle caterpillar, Blue-striped nettle grub

Parasa lepida (Cramer, 1799), Limacodidae

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Võ Anh Tuấn
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Comments (5)
Ornithoptera80
It is a female. In Parasa the males have thicker feathery antennae, that this one does not have.
Võ Anh Tuấn
m.prasad.369, no problem. I'm not sure about its gender. Could be female because the abdomen is big.
m.prasad.369
Võ Anh Tuấn, Thanks for the id. Is it female?
Võ Anh Tuấn
https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/268442 === https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/148034-Parasa/browse_photos
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PublishedSeptember 20, 2021

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