Photo #33953: Cossus cossus

Female

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Base gallery. Upperside. Pinned specimen.

Photo, and identified by: Vasiliy Feoktistov. Image without retouching at the website

Place of shooting/catching: Russia, Moscow reg., Zheleznodorozhny city, ex pupa. leg. Feoktistov V.I.

Photographer's comment: The caterpillar was assembled in September 2002, in the vicinity of the village of Torbeevo, Lyuberetsky district, Moscow region, near iv. Ekz. after some time after drying, it was covered with a thick layer of fat and was processed in gasoline for degreasing and from all this it lost a lot in quality. Anyone who has ever faced the massacre of representatives of this family should understand me.

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