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Post by saye on Jan 6, 2019 16:08:25 GMT -8
This photo of a supposed saturniid moth has been around on the web, not only never properly identified, but often paired with Saturnia pavonia as if it was its immature. It was apparently photographed in Sweden by Marco Fisher; a different angle photograph can be found on the photographer's website among regular macros. Still, the colours are suspicious - any id?
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Post by saye on Jan 6, 2019 16:09:54 GMT -8
How about this (sphingid?) larva? Also goes around without id (that I noticed). Any guesses?
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Post by Paul K on Jan 6, 2019 16:26:14 GMT -8
How about this (sphingid?) larva? Also goes around without id (that I noticed). Any guesses?
I don't think it is Sphingidae, I would guess Notodontidae. |
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Post by mothman27 on Jan 6, 2019 16:28:31 GMT -8
This photo of a supposed saturniid moth has been around on the web, not only never properly identified, but often paired with Saturnia pavonia as if it was its immature. It was apparently photographed in Sweden by Marco Fisher; a different angle photograph can be found on the photographer's website among regular macros. Still, the colours are suspicious - any id?
An Automeris sp.? |
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Post by saye on Jan 6, 2019 19:24:48 GMT -8
@paul K Right, the raised/modified posterior/prolegs is the hint, I presume. radusho That seems to be it, thanks. Impressive colours. |
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Post by cabintom on Jan 7, 2019 0:01:54 GMT -8
I expect that first photo has been post-processed slightly. It's a common practice to slightly increase saturation and even colour shift to make the image "pop" a bit more. If you look at the stick closely, it seems to me that it too is a bit pinker than it ought to be.
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Post by nomihoudai on Jan 8, 2019 4:50:41 GMT -8
The second one is some species of Eudocima.
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Post by saye on Jan 10, 2019 9:35:37 GMT -8
@ cabintom
Right. No other photo of the larva shows anywhere near the same colouration. I guess that's a combination of freshly moulted plus some tweaking.
@ nomihoudai
That's it. Thanks.
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Post by bartcoppens on Jan 16, 2019 11:00:39 GMT -8
The original photographer has admitted to changing the colours in this image.
It's a photoshopped larva of A. larra
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