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Micro-Lepidoptera

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Description:

This moth is only 4 mm long and yet is incredibly complicated with bumps and lumps comprised of scales which also manage to look wet, even though they are not. Undoubtedly it is meant to look like something yucky expelled from one end or the other.

Habitat:

Came to an ultraviolet light in the garden, San Cristobal de Las Casas, 2,200 meters.

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PublishedAugust 17, 2013

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