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Telchin licus (Drury, 1773)
Sun moth
FMNHINS 0000 041 452 · gbif-1142327810
- Classification
- Lepidoptera › Castniidae › Castnia
- Collected
- 1960-07-10
- Collector
- B. Malkin
- Region
- Beni, Bolivia
- Elevation
- Not recorded
- Sex / stage
- Female · Adult
- Dataset
- Field Museum Insect Collection (GBIF)
- License
- CC0 1.0
Locality
Original label text
Rio Benicito
AI-recommended
Rio Benicito, Beni, Bolivia
Curator-approved
Pending review
Collection event
- Method (original)
- “UV light trap near forest edge”
- Method (AI-normalised)
- Artificial light attraction99%
- Habitat
- Not recorded
- Label transcription
- Not recorded
Field notes & curator annotations
- Series collected same evening; this specimen representative.
Digitization & audit history
- imaged · 2026-10-20 · Collections database
Provenance
Retrieved 2026-10-20 via GBIF Occurrence API, GBIF occurrence 1142327810, occurrenceID 6fdb7131-e5d8-4ea9-afab-ebe09271a8c4. Rights holder: The Field Museum of Natural History.
occurrenceID 6fdb7131-e5d8-4ea9-afab-ebe09271a8c4
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