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Photo #4991: Mania empedocles

Female

Mania empedocles

Base gallery. Upperside. Alive insect.

Photo, and identified by: . Image redone at the website

Place of shooting/catching: Guyana, the Cuyuni River basin, near Quartzstone stream, at the exploration camp area.

Photographer's comment: Mania empedocles - https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/37313968 See: Cock, M.J.W. (2016) The corkscrew moths (Lepidoptera, Geometroidea, Sematuridae) of Trinidad and Tobago. Tropical Lepidoptera Research 26(2), 101-105. https://journals.flvc.org/troplep/article/view/93272

Comments on this image

01.10.2023 18:02, Peter Khramov Corrected data.

Nothus lunus / Tentatively identified / Vasiliy Feoktistov → Mania empedocles / Confidently identified / Konstantin Kraevsky.

09.01.2020 9:54, Corrected data.

Confidently identified → Tentatively identified.

08.01.2020 12:48,

It is very likely that it is not lunus. There is a very similar species with minor differences - empedocles. And, it seems, they are not Nothus now, but Mania ...
https://journals.flvc.org/troplep/article/view/93272

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