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I didn’t take a photo of him, but he has been living in my head rent free.
I’ve managed to find a few photos of bugs that look SIMILAR but nothing that’s quite right, so please excuse my messy Frankenstein-esque description here.

It had a similar colour and stripe pattern to the Asian giant hornet, solid bands that went the entire way around the abdomen.
Its eyes were noticeably large, sort of fly sized like the European hornet, but larger eyes than that. Real dinner plates on its face…
And its body WAS NOT SEGMENTED, this is my main hurdle in finding the right bug, they all have segmented bodies and I’m struggling, I drew the shape of its body and an approx colour of the strips

The wings were waspy and segmented