New Vietnemiese Caterpillar question.

[Doug Yanega]

>  I recently purchased a National Geographic for June 1999, and there was an
>article on Vietnemiese animals.  There was an image of a BRIGHTLY colored
>caterpillar (not specified as being Moth or Butterfly) called a "Slug
>Caterpillar."  It is a soft caterpillar with orange base-color, neon yellow
>spots rimed with black on the top and red streaks with black borders on the
>sides.  It has thick tentacles with MANY spines on them.  Does anyone know what
>kind of caterpillar this is?  If you could, could you E- mail me a website with
>images, info on this and related species?  Thank you.

Family Limacodidae (= "Eucleidae"). Very diverse in SE Asia.

25th-level Cleric to your Dracolich,


Doug Yanega        Dept. of Entomology         Entomology Research Museum
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