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Field Notes

Description:

Possible larvae of the Limacodidae family. Larvae are typically very flattened, and instead of prolegs they have suckers. The thoracic legs are reduced, but always present and they locomote by rolling waves rather than walking with individual prolegs. They even use a lubricant, a kind of liquified silk, to locomote on.

Notes:

Thanks to leads from LivanEscudero and Goody, more or less narrowed it down to the Limacodidae family.
Would really like to know what this is.

Species ID Suggestions

Crowned Slug Caterpillar

Limacodidae FAMILY

Reference Link
LivanEscudero
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Comments (16)
syzygy
Rather Extraordinary!... Just not to comment another Beautiful... (: Really a great spotting and cool shot! Thanks for sharing! I was curious about how does its moth look. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limacodidae ... Well, nothing extra. ... Oh, but just what the heck I am taking about... All is beautiful that lives! Even this guy from the dirt of the outhouse is wonderful! https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/436901328 (: ... P. S.: final count of the word 'beautiful' in the text: 3 (:
Nimbid Ditavi
It's wonderful and beautiful how life manage to appear in every form, even the weirdest. :)
KarenL
Hi Divemuster! Lovely spot! I have moved this to arthropods for you.
DiveMUster
Hi Goody/ Livan, Thank you for the ID suggestion. At least it gives sheds a bit of light but feel its still a long search ahead. Livan, as you aptly mentioned, the picture in the link is identical but the info does not positively identify it.
LivanEscudero
About above ID. While it is a caterpillar from the Limacodidae family, I can not find any reference to a particular species. The photo on the ref. web site is just like yours... but, the accompanying info is general found on other web sites, and I don't think specific to your species.
DiveMUster
I gathered its some sort of slug/mollusk but unlikely to be a caterpillar. The underside was more snail-like.
Aaron_G
Reminds me of a slug-like caterpillar. A quick Web search hasn't pulled up much for your part of the world.
DiveMUster
Hi Gerardo. Neither. It was in a rainforest and stuck to my car window! I have no idea how it got there.

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