Calliphara excellens
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Family: | Scutelleridae |
| Subfamily: | Scutellerinae |
| Tribe: | Scutellerini |
| Genus: | Calliphara |
| Species: | C. excellens
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| Calliphara excellens ((Burmeister, 1834)
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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
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.