Happy National Arctiidae Day (not)

You know you’ve arrived when they name a bug after your breed.

Meet the Venezuelan Poodle Moth – Artace sp, possibly A. cribaria — first spotted in 2009 by zoologist, Dr Arthur Anker, of Brazil’s Federal University of Ceará who found the tiny insect with a 1-inch wingspan while walking through Canaimá National Park in Venezuel. It’s thought the moth almost definitely belongs to the family Lasiocampidae, and may be a neotropical relative of the the Muslin Moth, or Diaphora mendica. The insect caused a bit of an Internet sensation after Anker posted a photo of it on his Flickr page.

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