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Amauta cacica (Herrich-Schäffer, 1854)
Sun moth
FMNHINS 0000 041 440 · gbif-1142396307
- Classification
- Lepidoptera › Castniidae › Amauta
- Collected
- 1960-09-16
- Collector
- Not recorded
- Region
- Chiriquí, Panama
- Elevation
- Not recorded
- Sex / stage
- Female · Adult
- Dataset
- Field Museum Insect Collection (GBIF)
- License
- CC0 1.0
Locality
Original label text
NO PRECISE LOCALITY DATA
AI-recommended
Chiriquí, Panama
Curator-approved
Pending review
Collection event
- Method (original)
- “Robinson trap overnight”
- Method (AI-normalised)
- Artificial light attraction93%
- 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 1142396307, occurrenceID d3f4ab05-4ec8-43b0-b157-cc2384acb7ad. Rights holder: The Field Museum of Natural History.
occurrenceID d3f4ab05-4ec8-43b0-b157-cc2384acb7ad
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