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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Carpenter and Clearwing Moths (Cossoidea) » Clearwing Moths (Sesiidae) » Sesiinae » Synanthedonini » Synanthedon » Florida Oakgall Moth - Hodges#2573 (Synanthedon sapygaeformis)
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Red and black wasp mimic - Synanthedon sapygaeformis
Copyright © 2010 Tim Lethbridge

Red and black wasp mimic - Synanthedon sapygaeformis
Archbold Biological Station - Lake Placid, Highlands County, Florida, USA
August 23, 2009
Size: 25mm roughly
This moth was a pretty convincing wasp mimic and the goldenrod I photographed him on was busy with a variety of red and black colored wasps.
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Contributed by Tim Lethbridge on 25 February, 2010 - 10:15pm
Last updated 27 February, 2010 - 6:29pm

Moved
Moved from Sesioidea.
… john and jane balaban, 27 February, 2010 - 6:29pm login or register to post comments

Moth ID
You are correct. This is Synanthedon sapygaeformis, a common clearwing in Florida.
… William H. Taft, 27 February, 2010 - 6:24pm login or register to post comments

Moved
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… john and jane balaban, 26 February, 2010 - 3:55pm login or register to post comments

Might be
Synanthedon sapygaeformis.



Or maybe something close (the images in the guide seem not to have as much blue iridescence as your specimen).

Let's see what the moth experts have to say.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 26 February, 2010 - 5:36am login or register to post comments

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