Wasp Moth

So cool!

That's some amazing mimicry! Congrats.

Wow! Very convincing mimicry

Congratulations Tom, this wasp mimic has been chosen to illustrate today's fact for National Moth Week 2017: National Moth Week 2017 continues! Thanks to all of you who continue to submit moths spottings. In honor of this year’s focus on tiger moths, Project Noah ranger, National Moth Week organizer and Cornell University entomology student Jacob Gorneau is bringing us daily interesting facts about tiger moths (Erebidae: Arctiinae): "Some tiger moths are excellent mimics of the order Hymenoptera, which includes ants, bees, sawflies, and wasps. They even have evolved a narrower abdomen and lost scales on some wings to mimic the narrow waist present in many hymenopterans, resulting in excellent wasp and ant mimics". Ref: http://buff.ly/2uRpF5m Wasp Moth (Myrmecopsis strigosa) spotted in Mexico by Tom15 http://buff.ly/2uRPC53 National Moth Week is from July 22-30. Are you participating? Please register a public or private event here: http://buff.ly/2uRqdbF, especially if your country or region isn't on the map yet! Don't forget to submit photos of moths you spot here! http://buff.ly/2uQJ5Yo Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/projectnoah/photos/pb.10150120463815603.-2207520000.1500936897./10159108867055603/?type=3&theater Twitter: https://twitter.com/projectnoah/status/889619110237282307

Amazing spotting, Tom! Check out the moth in the link; it's very similar to your and must be the same species or, at least the same genus.

What wonderful mimicry!

Close to this species: http://www.visualphotos.com/image/1x9094457/ctenuchid_moth_warning_colors_mullerian_mimic_of

Very cool.