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Leaf roller Moth

Pseudatteria volcanica

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Description:

Small and fast. Zebra like marks and bright orange, flies like a butterfly

Species ID Suggestions

Leaf Roller Moth

Pseudatteria volcanica

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Comments (29)
Kristie5
It looks like someone painted it.
Tom15
WOW!!! What a spectacular moth!
Gilma Jeannette Ospino Ferreira-Norman
Thank you Harsha Singh, I am really hoping to see that one and to get good pictures, they are small and fast, when I saw it the first time it was so fast I could not tell it had black marking!!
Harsha Singh
Lovely moth. See this one too. Very pretty. http://rhamphotheca.tumblr.com/post/17479216496/fyeahcutemoths-leaf-roller-moth-pseudatteria
Gilma Jeannette Ospino Ferreira-Norman
I went back to my pictures and I found the one with orange in the head but the pictures are not so good, also I found this Moth both times in the day time.
Gilma Jeannette Ospino Ferreira-Norman
Thank you bayucca. I could not find one that like my picture has black and white by the head, all of them have orange, would that make a difference in species/names?
bayucca
Pseudatteria volcanica, but not 100% sure, it is the one of the most common ones in Costa Rica.
Jacob Gorneau
It is definitely still a leaf roller moth. Though I think it is another species. There are about 14 or 15 species of Pseudatteria, though there isn't a valid internet reference for them.
Jacob Gorneau
I'd just like to add my input. Definitely Pseudatteria sp., though I don't think it is P. cladodes. Notice on yours how the thorax is white with black dots. On P. cladodes, the thorax is orange with black dots. http://www.flickr.com/photos/artour_a/6034515024/
ForestDragon
Try looking at Genus Pseudatteria. I don't have more info but it looks like there are actually a few in this genus that look similar.
ForestDragon
Amazing colors! I agree with J. This looks like a moth. Possibly Family Tortricidae.

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PublishedOctober 19, 2012

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