Gallery: Guatemalan arthropods at WSU

by WSM staff

Photos in vivo of some of the 130,000 Guatemalan colorful moths, beetles, and other bugs in the M.T. James Entomological Museum collection.

Abeja bee (Bombus terrestris) in a dahlia

Abeja (bee) in a pereskia flower

Adhemarius dariensis moth

Anartia jatrophae (white peacock butterfly)

Anteos clorinde (white-angled sulfur butterfly)

Antheraea godmani moth

Apocynaceae flower in Pantin, Guatemala

Araña (spider) in Pantin

Araña (spider) in Quiché

Automeris escalantei moth

Automeris gusano (moth larvae) in Chiantla

Unidentified butterfly

Bletia flower

Bee on a cactus flower

Chrysina auropunctata (scarab beetle)

Cissia libye butterfly

Citheronia azteca moth

onsul fabius (tiger leafwing butterfly) in Yaxhá

Copaxa lavendera moth

Copaxa rufinans moth

Dirphiopsis wolfei moth

Dryadula phaetusa (banded orange heliconian butterfly)

Eumaeus butterfly in Sierra Caral

Eumorpha elisa moth

Geometridae moth

Gusano esfinge (sphinx larvae) in El Bojonal

Hairstreak butterfly in Cahuí

Heterosternus rodriguezi scarab beetle in El Bojonal

Lonomia electra moth

Macropoides crassipes scarab beetle

Madoryx oiclus moth

Mesosemia butterfly

Metamorpha epaphus butterfly

Mosca (fly) on a flower in Climentoro

Abeja (bee) on a naranjillo flower

Paradirphia semirosea moth

Gusano (larvae) in Petatán

Proculus goryii beetle in El Bojonal

Riodinidae tarrales (metalmark butterfly)

Rothschildia erycina (Rothschild’s silk moth)

Skipper butterfly

Skipper butterfly in Huehuetenango

Lintneria istar (Sphinx istar moth)

Syrphidae hoverfly

Syrphidae tarrales (hoverfly)

Syssphinx quadrilineata moth

Moth

Photos by Jose Monzon