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Trosia dimas
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Trosia dimas

Trosia dimas, the rosy ermine, is a moth of the Megalopygidae family. It was described by Pieter Cramer in 1775. It is found in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil and Peru. The habitat consists of rainforests and cloudforest at altitudes between 300 and 1,700 meters.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 489587.