It is quite common. As the article says, other rove beetles evolved to be fake "stealth ants". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrmecophily_in_Staphylinidae htt

It is quite common. As the article says, other rove beetles evolved to be fake "stealth ants". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrmecophily_in_Staphylinidae https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrmecophily_in_Staphylinidae They don't look much like ants to humans but they do to ants, which is what matters. Some spiders do the same: https://www.antwiki.org/wiki/Ant-Mimicking_Spiders https://www.antwiki.org/wiki/Ant-Mimicking_Spiders In fact lots of animals do, on account of there are so many ants in the world and you can benefit from [a] living in an ant colony [b] not being eaten by ants or [c] eating ants yourself and getting away with it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_mimicry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_mimicry Even plants imitate insects: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/sneaky-orchids-manipulate-bees-pollination.html https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/sneaky-orchids-manipulate-bee... One orchid imitates an extinct bee so we only know how the bee looked from the orchid's "artist's impression". https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2013/09/02/a-flower-hints-at-the-appearance-of-an-extinct-bee/ https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2013/09/02/a-flower-hints-at-...