Calliphara excellens is a animal in the Scutelleridae family, order Hemiptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.
Calliphara excellens
Calliphara excellens is a Scutelleridae jewel bug found in Nepal and India, with known courtship and oviposition behaviors.
Calliphara excellens is a species of jewel bug belonging to the family Scutelleridae. This species is distributed across Nepal and India. Males of this species perform ritualized courtship displays: they walk around the female, press their abdomen against a plant, and then touch the female’s antennae. After mating completes, the female lays her eggs inside the seeds of a host plant, an example of which is Macaranga tanarius.
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Hotea curculionoides (Herrich-Schaefer, 1836)
Eurygaster integriceps Puton, 1881
Eucorysses grandis (Thunberg, 1783)
Homaemus aeneifrons (Say, 1824)
Poecilocoris druraei (Linnaeus, 1771)
Orsilochides guttata (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1839)
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