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Case Moth Pupa

Photo by LaurenZarate
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Description:

Beautifully engineered "house" of a Case Moth Larva. This one is now attached permanently to the leaf by silk and closed so it is now pupating.
2 cm long. Family Psychidae.

Habitat:

Heavy shrubbery along the highway between San Cristobal de Las Casas and Tuxtla Gutierrez, km 11.5, 865 meters.

Notes:

The Chrysomelid Leaf Beetle in the second picture is in another spotting: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/36010034/fullscreen.

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PublishedAugust 11, 2013

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