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Moth at Monteverde Reserve, 20/04/14

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Any ID suggestions welcome!
Any ID suggestions welcome!
 
Just done some Google image searching and think I may have found the ID for this moth - Dirphia horcana.
 
Just done some Google image searching and think I may have found the ID for this moth - Dirphia horcana.

If that's not right, it's certainly very, very close! Some of the images looks just like it, some slightly less so (probably just a variable species).

Thanks!

As you may have noticed, I've been working through some of these bugs trying to get IDs - you may just have saved me some work when I get to Monteverde's ones! :D
 

No problem!

If that's not right, it's certainly very, very close! Some of the images looks just like it, some slightly less so (probably just a variable species).

Just checked out the very useful website below, and I am now pretty certain it is Dorphia horcana - the only two other species of the genus listed in Costa Rica are D. nora and D. avia, neither of which look anything like the moth pictured above.

Moth Costa Rica -- identification guide -- Discover Life
 

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