1904 Cecropia with 5 wings

[boghaunter1]

Hello all,

Just stumbled across this interesting B. & W. photo (on Ebay, photo #8 in listing) of a female Cecropia moth (dates from 1904) with 5 wings included in an old 1913 entomology text. Anyone know of or have any experience with this type of an obviously very rare aberration?... just curious!


https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=22 ... m570.l1313

Aberrant Cecropia moth with 5 wings... 1913 book.jpg (274.83 KiB) Viewed 284 times

John K.

[adamcotton]

Very strange, the pupa must have had an extra wing case. I have never seen anything like that.

Adam.

[Borearctia]

I have knowledge of only 3 specimens with this type of malformation
An example can be found here:
https://lepiforum.org/wiki/page/Laothoe ... /image/2/1
The text notes that the specimen was able to fly.

Andreas