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Giant Butterfly Moth

Synpalamides phalaris

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Giant Butterfly Moth

Synpalamides phalaris

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Comments (7)
Sergio Monteiro
Thank you bayucca, for using this photo in the blog. It is an honor, for me and the moth... :-)
bayucca
That's the reason why I take this one for my blog...
Sergio Monteiro
Thank you again, bayucca. I know that itis a duplicate spotting, but I like how this one shows the underwing colors! :-)
bayucca
I will know delete for once my previous IDs of Castniidae and Synpalamides sp. from 2011.
bayucca
It is absolutely not an easy one. There is almost no reasonable info about this family. It is one of my favorite family of moths, but at the moment I can't get closer. I hope that my visit in the Museum of natural History in Vienna this summer will give me some opportunity to study these ones a little bit more...
Sergio Monteiro
Wow, that was fast. Good to have an easy one every once on a while, huh? Thanks as always.

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PublishedFebruary 2, 2012

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