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Vermillion Mimic Wasp Moth

Cosmosoma auge

Photo by Nimbid Ditavi
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Field Notes

Description:

The Vermillion Mimic Wasp Moth has beautiful glass wings, detailed antennae, and wonderful shiny blue spots on its abdomen and head, its mainly colored orange with black patches, their legs have both of this colors, this is the characteristic that differentiate this species with C. myrodora, that's why its a mimic wasp moth. this specimen was relly calm even though they was light all over the place.

Habitat:

Grasslands

Species ID Suggestions

Vermillion Wasp Mimic

Cosmosoma auge

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Comments (4)
Nimbid Ditavi
Wow! I didn't saw that coming! Thanks a lot for clearing out the confusion, I'm still amazed with this! But I have seen your suggested species and concluded you're right, but the confusion was really inevitable, they really look alike, just some little yet important details. Thank you so much!
bayucca
Cosmosoma auge. There are some taxonomic confusion, however, Myrodora is not found in Colombia and there are differences: Auge has bicolored legs, behind the head is an interrupted red patch. Myrodora has unicolored legs and a fully red patch behind the head, or at least this criteria is matching for most of the pictures you will see. http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=500862 http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=8280

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PublishedApril 4, 2013

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