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Copaxa sapatoza
Plate 1 of 1. John Obadiah Westwood (22 December 1805 – 2 January 1893) (Public domain) · via Wikimedia

Copaxa sapatoza

Copaxa sapatoza is a species of moth in the family Saturniidae first described by John O. Westwood in 1854 as Saturnia sapatoza. It is found in the north-east of the Andean Cordillera in Colombia at high elevations.

The larvae feed on Alnus rhombifolia and Persea americana.

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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 871563.