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It happened again! On my ninth and last night of mothing in Panama, this thing flew in. I mean, it literally flew in when I was at the sheet documenting other moths. I heard it before I saw it.…”fwaAPPP!!” And it’s déja vu all over again.
To be clear, it actually perched on the sheet in its normal vertical (?), head-to-the-side posture, but I've rotated the images here for display.
I measured this moth twice with my handy cm rule. Total wingspan measured 26.2-26.3 cm (each FW about 12 to 12.5 cm) or about 10.3 to 10.4 inches. That's not quite an inch smaller than the one I encountered 6-1/2 years ago. See, https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/9152365
The present location is at a different residence than the moth in 2017 but only 100 meters away; same small community in Alto Quiel, Los Naranjos, Chiriquí, Panama (a suburb of Boquete).