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July 20, 2015

Mothu Picchu

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In honor of National Moth Week, I thought I'd post pix of three moths I saw at Machu Picchu earlier this month, with the help of nature guide Erwin Rosa Alagon.

 Deedee Burnside, who saw a moth like the one above in Ecuador, ID'd it as a geometrid – A leopard moth. (Thanks, Deedee!)

Any help with the IDs of the moths below would be much appreciated.

Stay tuned for an announcement of the 2015 Fell House Moth Night.

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  • Deb Lievens
    11 years ago Reply

    I have two photos from Ecuador Feb 2012 in the cloud forests east of Quito. They are slightly different as dots merge more on one. I researched to Pantherodes pardalaria and conglomerata. Yours could be conglomerata. (I’m an amateur for sure.) It’s an easy google to get more info. Your other moths are a tiger moth in the Arctiinae and another geometer. I saw lots of different tiger moths and only IDed a few.

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  • Deb Lievens
    11 years ago Reply

    I have two photos from Ecuador Feb 2012 in the cloud forests east of Quito. They are slightly different as dots merge more on one. I researched to Pantherodes pardalaria and conglomerata. Yours could be conglomerata. (I’m an amateur for sure.) It’s an easy google to get more info. Your other moths are a tiger moth in the Arctiinae and another geometer. I saw lots of different tiger moths and only IDed a few.

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