Oruga Extraordinario de Veracruz - Dalceridae familia

[Mike Quinn]

Dear Mr. Grouch,

Here are some similar caterpillars from Costa Rica...

Minacraga plata (Dalceridae) feeding on unknown food
http://tinyurl.com/5llp6w

Acraga coa (Dalceridae) feeding on unknown food
http://tinyurl.com/5bsha7

Acraga hamata (Dalceridae) feeding on unknown food
http://tinyurl.com/5st6oz

Acraga hamata (Dalceridae) feeding on unknown food
http://tinyurl.com/6p6l7d

Janzen, D. H. and Hallwachs, W. 2005. Dynamic database for an
inventory of the macrocaterpillar fauna, and its food plants and
parasitoids, of Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG), northwestern
Costa Rica (nn-SRNP-nnnnn voucher codes)
<http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu>.

Not kidding, Mike Quinn, Austin

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From: OscartheGrouch <tondaleo at hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: Oruga Extraordinario de Veracruz - Dalceridae familia
To: leps-l at lists.yale.edu


Only a comment: Are you kidding me?


Mike Quinn wrote:
> There's an *incredible* larval photo from southern Veracruz posted on
> the following LepSoc link.
>
> Mike Quinn, Austin
>
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> This striking photo was provided by Manuel Grosselet and Georgita
> Ruiz. The caterpillar was found within an ecological recovery terrain,
> inside an oil refinery complex in Southern Mexico: Refineria de Santa
> Alejandrina, Minatitlan, Veracruz.  Various lepidopterists have
> identified it as a Dalcerid, related to Limacodid.  Any more specific
> identification?
>
> http://www.lepsoc.org/what_is_it_help_others.php
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