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
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