Stock Photo: Beautiful Pseudosphinx Tetrio Moth Caterpillar
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This is a Pseudosphinx tetrio moth species, Sphingidae family. This is the larva. The larva is a caterpillar which may exceed 15 centimeters in length. It is black with aposematic yellow bands and a red-orange head. Toward the posterior end is an orange bump with a black horn roughly 2 centimeters long. The legs are orange with black spots. It is native to the tropical and subtropical Americas from the southern and southwestern United States to Brazil. Observed at Cerro Cahuà Protected Biotope, Petén department, northern Guatemala.
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