Summary ²

Tetragonus catamitus, the common butterfly moth, or Philippine callidulid moth, is a moth of the family Callidulidae. Noted from Taiwan, north-eastern India, south-west India, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Sri Lanka, the Tenasserim Hills of Burma and from Java. They are day-flying moths that can be easily mistaken for a butterfly due to the position in which they hold their wings.

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1. (c) L. Shyamal, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tetragonus_catamitus_India.jpg
2. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetragonus_catamitus

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