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Identification history
| Lepidoptera unclassified IMMATURE moth | 22 Sep 2023 | Hejor1 | ||
| Opiliones (order) | 20 Sep 2023 | donhe | ||
| Euproctis marginalis | 19 Sep 2023 | Hejor1 |
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Larval skin
7 comments
donhe
wrote:
20 Sep 2023
Too small for a Lymantriine.? Too hairy around the head and thorax for Lepidoptera?
donhe
wrote:
21 Sep 2023
I find these photos hard to understand. Am I right in thinking it has wings? If so how many?
Hejor1
wrote:
22 Sep 2023
@donhe i think this may actually be a shed skin? The bits that look like wings could be where it crawled out?
donhe
wrote:
22 Sep 2023
Aha : so it is the pupal skin. The attachment by a cremaster to the rock looks special, but I have not seen it before. I think only butterflies do that. The size suggests maybe a Lycaenid.
owenh
wrote:
22 Sep 2023
When you zoom in on Hejor1's images they look very much like the discarded larval skin of a hairy caterpillar to me. Not Lycaenidae.
Hejor1
wrote:
22 Sep 2023
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 19 Sep 2023 04:30 PM Recorded on
- Hejor1 Recorded by
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- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
- Larvae Breeding behaviour
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