Calliphara excellens

Calliphara excellens is a jewel bug in the family Scutelleridae. It is distributed in Nepal and India.[1] Males engage in ritualistic Courtship display, walking around the female, touching his abdomen to the plant before touching the female's antennae. After mating, the female oviposits into the seed of a host plant, such as Macaranga tanarius. [2]

Calliphara excellens
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C. excellens
Binomial name
Calliphara excellens
((Burmeister, 1834)
Synonyms
  • Tetyra excellens Burmeister, 1834
  • Tectocoris obscura Westwood, 1837
  • Callidea nobilis Germar, 1839
  • Calliphara obscura Sharp, 1890

References

  1. Sharma, Praveen (2011). Systematic studies of family scutelleridae (hemiptera: heteroptera) and biology of an economically important scutellerid bug, scutellera perplexa (westwood) (PDF) (Thesis). Aligarh Muslim University.
  2. Mukai, Hiromi; Takanashi, Takuma; Yamawo, Akira (2022). "HIERARCHICAL MULTIMODAL SIGNALS IN THE COURTSHIP DISPLAYS OF JEWEL BUGS". Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. [Wiley, Ecological Society of America]. 103 (3): 1–6. JSTOR 48673828. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
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