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Trosia nigropunctigera, the rosy ermine moth, is a lepidopteran in the family Megalopygidae native to the Neotropics. The species is distributed across Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Ecuador and Peru. This adult T. nigropunctigera moth was photographed in the Mount Totumas cloud forest in Panama.

Photograph credit: Charles James Sharp

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