mimicry in which a harmless species is protected from predators by means of its resemblance to a harmful or inedible species
Word origin
C19: named after H. W. Bates (1825–92), British naturalist and explorer
Batesian mimicry in American English
(ˈbeɪtsiən)
a kind of mimicry in which one species, to make itself less vulnerable to a particular predator, imitates the structure and coloration of another species that is unpalatable, difficult to capture, etc.