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Riechia acraeoides

Fazenda Grotão - Brasilia, DF, Brazil.

 

The species is a moth, but has a very similar look to some butterflies in the tribe Acraeini (particularly the genera Actinote and Acraea). Maybe there's a mimicry relationship between them.

 

Beetles copulating on the right side are probably from the genus Cosmisoma.

 

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Insecta

Order: Lepidoptera

Superfamily: Sesioidea

Family: Castniidae

Subfamily: Castniinae

Tribe: Gazerini

Genus: Riechia Oiticica, 1955

Species: R. acraeoides (Guérin-Méneville, [1832])

Binomial name: Riechia acraeoides

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Uploaded on December 11, 2017
Taken on November 12, 2017