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This is an attractive day-flying moth found in open grassy areas in Lyndhurst. The one female I caught was content to lay eggs in my enclosure, which hatched. It is black, with an iridescent blue body.

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1. (c) Benjamin Waner, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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