Trompe l'oeil in the world of moths

Here is an amazing display of deception, The moth above is from China and goes by the unwieldy name of Uropia meticulodina. It produces the image of a folded leaf with the shading in all the right places including the appropriate veins on the underside as it curls up. Even when you have seen through the trick you still can't believe it isn't a leaf. The two photos above it are from a moth on our own Mahogany tree that is in the centre of our AISM courtyard. The same principle applies even though the deception is not as superbly defined.