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Photo #45716: Byctiscus princeps

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Byctiscus princeps

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Base gallery. Alive insect.

Photo, and identified by: Yuri Semejkin. Image without retouching at the website

Date and time, location shooting/catching: 2013-05-23 00:00:00, Vladivostok, Botanical Garden - Institute of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of SCIENCES

Photographer's comment: Byctiscus princeps Sols

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15.10.2015 9:25, Vasiliy Feoktistov

Shamil, that's just because of the features of such structures collapse of leaves (eg cigars, pipes) family of Russian and called attelabidae.
"The females lay their eggs in shallow pits or folds the sheet from which the larvae fold more or less tight package, often in the form of a tube or barrel." : https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Трубковёрты

15.10.2015 8:54, Vasiliy Feoktistov Corrected data.

→ Byctiscus princeps.

15.10.2015 8:42, Shamil Murtazin

Yuri, what kind of structure of leaves?

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