unknown butterfly
Eric or Pat Metzler
spruance at infinet.com
Fri Jul 3 21:55:23 EDT 1998
Ferdi wrote:
>
> the last February I found an
> unknown butterfly in Guyane. Is there someone to help me to identify it?
> I have a picture at this adress :
> http://perso.wanadoo.fr/cogelog/lepidopt/buterfly.htm
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Ferdi
The upper photograph is most probably Hyalurga partita (early 1900's
nomenclature), an arctiidae moth.
The lower photo is most probably a Dioptinae moth, genus Dioptis (early
1900's nomenclature) (family Notodontidae).
Both are moths - no club on the end of the antennae.
Good luck,
Eric Metzler
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