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Yellow Tussock Moth

Euproctis sp.

Photo by Francis Floe
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Field Notes

Habitat:

Found chilling on the chair

Notes:

If I directly use light on it, the moth looks completely white in the photo so I used dimmer light or no light at all. That's why the photo quality is not clear. I'm not sure what species it is.
It's probably Euproctis lutea or Euproctis varians, or neither of them.

Reference Links:

Euproctis - Wikipedia, Flickr

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)
Francis Floe
Hello John B. I'm extremely thankful for your help. The links you gave me are helpful and they're pretty similar to my photos, but I've found so many species that look extremely alike to each other and have the same geographic range. It's almost impossible to find the exact species with my blurry photos. I'll keep this spotting at genus level just to be sure. Thanks anyways John B!
John B.
Hi Francis Floe, your specimen might be Euproctis varians (Walker, 1855), I am not entirely sure, but here is some reference material if you want to have a look: http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/lymantriidae/euproctis/index.html#chrysorrhoea http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/16420008 http://www.geocities.ws/notodontidae/lyma.35.html http://www.geocities.ws/notodontidae/lyma.25.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nygmiini John B.

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