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Please help us to identify this critter - Prolimacodes badia
Copyright © 2016 Andrew Kahl

Please help us to identify this critter - Prolimacodes badia
Blue Ridge Parkway, Tucker Co,. Lower Otter Creek, Virginia, USA
Size: ~1cm
Found on 14/10/82, on a side of a wooden handrail.
Lower Otter Creek, running through an old red spruce-hemlock forest, is at ~ 530m elevation.
Contributed by Andrew Kahl on 4 March, 2016 - 9:31am
Last updated 4 March, 2016 - 3:51pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… john and jane balaban, 4 March, 2016 - 3:51pm

i think Prolimacodes badia is the only one with this shape
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… metrioptera, 4 March, 2016 - 10:27am

 
Prolimacodes badia
Thanks -

Andrew
… Andrew Kahl, 4 March, 2016 - 6:40pm

One
of the Slug Caterpillar Moths.
… Lisa I., 4 March, 2016 - 10:09am

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