Ladybird, Ladybug, Lady Beetle (Coccinellidae)
Every one knows the common ladybirds of gardens and childhood stories. Yet they are but a very few of the wide diversity of species assigned to the beetle family, Coccinellidae. Some of the commonly seen ladybirds are brightly coloured and patterned, readily attracting the attention of home gardeners and small children. Most species are predatory, particularly on insects that are often pests of agriculture.
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Pu’er, Yunnan, China
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Cicada (Tosena paviei)
Tosena is a genus of cicadas that can be found in the Indo-Malaya ecozone, which includes the Indian subcontinent, Southeastern Asia and southern China. Tosena cicadas have colorful wings, which rival the beauty of butterfly wings.
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Pu’er, Yunnan, China
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Speckled Black Cicada (Gaeana maculata, Cicadidae)
Gaeana is a genus of cicadas, most members of which have colourful marking on their forewings, found across tropical and temperate Asia. Their bright wing patterns have been hypothesized as being a case of Batesian mimicry where the toxic models may be day-flying moths of the families Zygaenidae and Arctiidae.
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Pu’er, Yunnan, China
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Net-Winged Beetle (Lycidae)
Beetles of this family are elongated and usually found on flowers or stems. The adults of some species are nectarivores while some may have short-lived adult lives during which they may not feed at all. The head is triangular and the antennae are long, thick, and serrate. Many of them are brightly colored, usually reddish, as a warning to potential predators of their inherent toxicity.
The predaceous larvae grow under bark or in leaf litter.
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Pu’er, Yunnan, China
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Stalk-Eyed Fly (Diopsidae)
Stalk-eyed flies are insects of the fly family Diopsidae. The family is distinguished by the possession of eyestalks: projections from the sides of the head with the eyes at the end. Some fly species from other dipteran families such as the Drosophilidae and Tephritidae carry similar structures but the unique character of the Diopsidae is that the antennae are carried next to the eye at the end of the stalk.
Adult diopsids are typically found on low-lying vegetation in humid areas, often near streams and rivers, where they feed on fungi and bacteria on decaying vegetation. The larvae develop in rotting vegetation.
Adult flies do not possess the eyestalks when they emerge from pupation so a rather remarkable feature is their ability to ingest air through their oral cavity and pump it through ducts in the head to the tips of the eye stalks, thereby elongating them while they are still soft and transparent.
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Pu’er, Yunnan, China
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