What Is It? Help Others
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This page contains photos of Lepidoptera that have stumped someone. If you
can provide an identification, send it to the Society web editor at john.snyder@furman.edu.
He will place your opinion under the photo and will notify the person who submitted
it.
If you have a photo whose subject has been tough to identify, send it in
to be added to this page. When you submit a photo, please (1) provide it in
electronic form (jpg preferred), (2) provide as much information as possible
about where it was collected or seen, and (3) provide your own name and email
address.
Jim Johnson works in Nevis, in the Eastern Caribbean, where he found this caterpillar. It was in an upper elevation (2000 ft.) rainforest. Can anyone identify it for him?  
Hanna Roland, of Solingen in Germany, was visiting Venezuela in October
2006 and found these two animals that need identification. Details: at Casa
Maria, near Bejuma at an elevation of 750m.
 This one isn't an "unknown" but it certainly is unusual.
Nell Ahl found it and graciously gave permission for its photo to be displayed
here. Of course, it is the North American Saturniid moth Automeris io
(seen July 13, 2006), but the left hindwing has one complete "eyespot"
and two incomplete additional ones.
 Please help Guillermo Molina with an identification of
this larva, photographed in Guatemala. It is about 2 cm long.
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