Looper moth

Ashish, I live very, very far from Amazonia! But, I live in a place that is somehow a crossroad between many different geographical and biological environments. Within a hundred miles radius we have subtropical rain forest (the Mata Atlantica, or Atlantic Forest, wich is said to have an even greater biodiversity than Amazon forest), mountains that go up to 1,6 thousand meters high, many small and medium sized rivers, the Campos Gerais region, grasslands permeated with gallery forests and scattered groves of Araucaria forest, etc. Temperature reaches 32C to 34C in summer, and around 10C in winter, sometimes reaching 0C or -1C. Given all that, life here is plenty and varied. A real paradise for nature lovers.

Thank you, Ashish, for the ID, and Martin for the help.

Martin: :-)

It is very interesting, Martin, specially that dark stripe in the rear portion of the wing, that looks almost the same as in my spot. Mimic animals (insects above all others) attracted me since I was a kid (long ago). I always wondered about the mechanism that led to such wonderful results. And, the more I think (and forgive me Darwin's spirit for what I am going to say), the more I believe that there is a bit of magic in it.

Ok folks, here are the definitive pics of this moth, taken just today. And no, it's not Photoshop!!! :-)

I uploaded another picture of this moth. Not very good, but it shows a new angle of it.

You know, Martin, it was carnaval here these last days, maybe this girl just forgot to take off her costume... :-)