Calliphara excellens

Species of true bug

Calliphara excellens

Dorsal view
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
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 2023-01-11.1-6&rft.date=2022&rft_id=https://www.jstor.org/stable/48673828#id-name=JSTOR&rft_id=info:doi/10.1002/bes2.1982&rft_id=info:bibcode/2022BuESA.103E1982M&rft.aulast=Mukai&rft.aufirst=Hiromi&rft.au=Takanashi,+Takuma&rft.au=Yamawo,+Akira&rft_id=https://www.jstor.org/stable/48673828&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Calliphara+excellens" class="Z3988">

Taxon identifiers

Calliphara excellens|

* Wikidata: Q96374296
* GBIF: 10871182

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