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Erebid Moth Caterpillar
Macrobrochis gigas
8.01979, 98.3457
Field Notes
Description:
A very hairy caterpillar.
Macrobrochis gigas differs from congeners in the following morphological characters: orange head and collar; thorax black above with green metallic tinge and orange below; tegulae striped with orange; abdomen greenish black, the extremity and ventral surface orange; abdomen with white bands or lateral spots on the hind borders of each segment; forewing black with a green tinge, with a small white spot at the base, with a larger one beyond it, and a spot at the end of the cell and another below it; hindwing with the basal half white, the outer half black. Mass aggregation and feeding behavior of this species adult and larvae observed in several sites in South India.
Habitat:
Our garden ( and surely other gardens too) Phuket , Thailand. They suddenly are all over our garden (and outside kitchen) around June.
Notes:
I call them the Beatles. Obvious.
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