Personal Museum of Natural History

In February of 2007 I stumbled upon the Personal Museum of Natural History website at http://www.planktonik.com/museum/en/insects/index.html while doing a google.com search for Saturniidae of Suriname.

I spotted images of species identified only to genus level, such as Copiopteryx and Rothschildia, and I used my country checklists to identify the moths to species level. There are many areas in Suriname which yet remain unexplored.

I have contacted the owners of the images and website to obtain permission to post images, and I have provided the owners with identifications.

I am pretty sure the moth depicted above belongs to the Oxytenidae family. It was taken in Brownsberg, Suriname, August 2004.

Please send id help to Bill Oehlke.

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