Today I want to appreciate with you two extremely beautiful horned giddings: in fact, they are tiny beetles, only 2.5-3.5 cm long, but they look so bright under the stereoscopic dissecting mirror, the natural and primitive blue, the beauty is breathtaking! Also called Beauty crying, healed, haha!
Nowadays, the insect and collecting communities in Japan, Europe and the United States are popular in researching and appreciating subtle taxons, that is because the subtle taxa is more diverse, the variety is very diverse, and the mysteries are endless, which is the last goal that the earth's biological gene pool needs to focus on exploring. Our connoisseurs today are these tiny ecological insects!
Horned Jidin is a genus, the genus name is Habroloma, domestic species have been known to more than 50 species, most of them are dark in color, but there are two blue gorgeous species: one is the blue-winged horned Jiding Habroloma lewisii (Saunders), more common but very beautiful, appreciate the picture:
Blue-winged horned giding obverse
Blue-winged horned Giding on the reverse
In 2021, Peng Zhongliang published another blue species, called Lilan HornEdin Hanbroloma pulchrum Peng, the word pulchrum is derived from the Latin adjective, which means beautiful. The shape of this insect is very similar to the former, but the color is more bright and charming, and the picture is appreciated:
Lil-horned Giding front
Lil-horned Gidding on the reverse
Of course, the difference between the two is not limited to body color. Sharp-eyed netizens can quickly see it. The most typical difference is that the sides of the blue-horned dorsal plate are strongly extended outward at the back of the 1/3 back plate of the blue-horned gidding, followed by four smooth spots or smooth areas arranged horizontally on the dorsal plate of the anterior thorax, while the blue-winged gidding has only two, one on the left and one on the left and right. It's even more fun to look for other places when you're looking for them.
The newly discovered Lilan HornEding is rare, and the rarity is the highest with five stars, and I hit four stars. There are distributions in several southern provinces, and those interested in the collection of model specimens should check the original text. If you have the urge to gather, you can fish in the wild berries in the spring and summer and look for them carefully. Although lilan horned gilding is not yet a protected species but it is very rare, do not over-collect, natural ecology you have more love, you will feel happier and sublime!
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