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Crowned-Slug Caterpillar - Isa textula
Copyright © 2009 SauriaMami

Crowned-Slug Caterpillar - Isa textula
Atchison, Atchison County, Kansas, USA
September 26, 2009
Size: 1cm
Found attached to an Oak leaf in a dominant Oak forest.
Contributed by SauriaMami on 28 September, 2009 - 8:20pm
Last updated 18 July, 2012 - 7:07am

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John R. Maxwell, 28 September, 2009 - 10:27pm

Still a caterpillar actually.
Some type of slug caterpillar (family Limacodidae). My guess is the Crowned slug caterpillar (Isa textula), you can check the guide page here and see what you think.
… Seb, 28 September, 2009 - 8:27pm

Still a caterpillar actually.
Some type of slug caterpillar (family Limacodidae). My guess is the Crowned slug caterpillar (Isa textula), you can check the guide page here and see what you think.
… Seb, 28 September, 2009 - 8:26pm

 
Crowned-Slug Caterpillar
Outstanding! Thank you for the extremely quick ID on this fellow. I had gone back the next day to see if it was still there..and I'm now guessing, it being a caterpillar, it had already moved on.
Great to know a name now.
… SauriaMami, 28 September, 2009 - 8:35pm

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