Subject: Butterfly, Moth or Bug?
Location: Somdet, Thailand
September 27, 2014 2:34 am
Just got this from my wife. It looks like a moth with crying children on its wings then when it opens its wings it appears to have a yellow praying mantis on it.
Signature: Mat Coleman
Hi Mat,
Your insect is a moth, and we quickly identified it as Eudocima hypermnestra thanks to an image on FlickR. We located a second image on FlickR and then a posting on iNaturalist to verify the identification.
It appears to be a mimic of the Plain Tiger butterfly (Danaus chrysippus)