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Calliphara excellens

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Calliphara excellens
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Scutelleridae
Subfamily: Scutellerinae
Tribe: Scutellerini
Genus: Calliphara
Species:
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

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]

References

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  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. 103 (3). [Wiley, Ecological Society of America]: 1–6. Bibcode:2022BuESA.103E1982M. doi:10.1002/bes2.1982. JSTOR 48673828. Retrieved 2023-01-11.