Mazuca strigicincta

Mazuca strigicincta, the Pikachu moth, is a moth in the family Noctuidae found from Nigeria and Ghana down to northern Namibia and Mozambique.

[1] This taxon was named by Francis Walker in 1866.

[2][3][4] The common name, Pikachu moth, comes from the fact that the moth shares colors with the popular Pokémon character Pikachu.

M. strigicincta appears on a commemorative Ghanaian postage stamp in 2002 along with other stamps featuring other species of moths.

The stamp features the Pikachu moth with a purple background, with "Ghana" written in the top right and the characters "C4500" in the bottom left in red Comic Sans.