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Cerambycidae, Cerambycinae, Odontocera albicans
Mimicry is the innate ability of some living things to seem what they are not. This helpless beetle evolved to look like a dangerous ichneumon wasp, to keep out predators, and increase its chances of survival. It is a cerambycid beetle, from subfamily Cerambycinae. Here you can see the wasp it mimics: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/275... and here another insect that does the same: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/943...
Spotted on Dec 13, 2013
Submitted on Dec 14, 2013
8 Comments
Now look at this guy http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/130...,
its amazing how two totally different and not related insects converge for imitating another one
Done, Juan.
Amazing beetle. Please consider to add this spot to Mimetic Animals mission
Thank you Chun.
Splendid spotting, Sergio !
Awesome! So glad you could get an exact ID. I was just going for Necydalinae, as that is what it looks most similar to Cerambycidae in North America.
Sorry Jakubko, but it is not a Necydalinae...
Exact ID found.