Please see the uploaded photograph and a small video of an insect. Its body seems highly evolved to match with the vegetation to camouflage. Can somebody provide any infromation about this?
Thanks
This is Euthalia aconthea caterpillar the common baron butterfly
It is, indeed, a caterpillar.
What geographic area is it from? Was it on a specific plant?
These details might help in the identification.
However, it looks possibly very similar to caterpillar of the genus Lexias, also known as the Archduke caterpillars!
Do you have any additional info/photos?
Looks like what they call a "fire caterpillar" in Brazil, Lonomia sp.
Hello Dr. Martoni, Dr. Harve and Dr. Rojas Vidal,
Thanks a lot for helping in the identification of the insect. The photograph and the video was sent to me by my brother, who happened to see it for the first time in his area (Northern India). It was just out of interest, we were curious to know what it is. Thanks a lot once again.
best regards
Ajay Saini
Is the caterpillar of Euthalia aconthea (Lepidoptera:Nymphalidae), is beautiful
https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/76073953
Dear Prof Constantino and Prof Jalilov,
Thanks a lot for providing inputs
best regards
Dear Ms. Zakirova,
Thanks for the insight into the organism
best regards
Ajay Saini
Hello Dr. Ajay Saini Looks like it is Euthalia aconthea, the common baron, often called simply baron, is a medium-sized nymphalid butterfly native to India and South-East Asia. It flies with stiff wing beats and often glides. The wing is not flapped very far below the horizontal.
The male is brown with slight traces of olive. The forewing has two transverse short black lines at the base, a black loop across the middle, and another beyond the apex of the cell, with their centres dark brown, followed by an angulated discal dark brown band bordered outwardly by a series of five white spots; two preapical white spots beyond and a broad, somewhat diffuse, subterminal black band broadening over the apex and angulated inwards in interspace 1. Hindwing shaded with dark brown at base, two crescent-shaped dark brown loop-like marks in cell; a discal series of dark brown, elongate, outwardly acute, inwardly diffuse, somewhat hastate (spear-shaped) spots, followed by a subterminal series of small spots of the same colour. Underside ochraceous brown. Forewing on the underside shows five transverse slender black lines across cell; a black spot below median vein; discal and preapical white spots as on the upperside, succeeded by a postdiscal series of somewhat diffuse crescent-shaped black marks, and a broad terminal pale lilac band not reaching the apex, bordered narrowly along the termen with dark brown. Hindwing with four or five slender black loops at base, a posteriorly obsolescent postdiscal series of diffuse black marks and a subterminal series of black dots; the termen near apex touched with pale lilac. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen dark brown, the antennae ochraceous at the tip, the body paler beneath.....
Dear Prof. Jalilov,
Thanks a lot for a lot of details on this organism. I appreciate your valuable response
regards
Ajay Saini
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