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Pachycoris torridus

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16 Comments

Juan DiTrani
Juan DiTrani 10 years ago

Thanks Rieko and Gilma

RiekoS
RiekoS 10 years ago

Very nice!

Lovely!!
What gorgeous pattern, Juan DiTrani, congratulations, great spotting.

Leuba Ridgway
Leuba Ridgway 11 years ago

very nice !

tmvdh
tmvdh 11 years ago

Hi Juan,
thanks for the link!
Here's another one - leading to an article I wrote about a colour morph of P. torridus I found in Costa Rica:
http://cro.ots.ac.cr/rdmcnfs/datasets/vi...
Sorry - it's in German.

Agustín Amenabar L
Agustín Amenabar L 11 years ago

All the same insect! wow.
It should be called the Variable bug.

Juan DiTrani
Juan DiTrani 11 years ago

Hi tmvdh. I think Sergio refered to http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=s...

Telse
Telse 11 years ago

Nice!

tmvdh
tmvdh 11 years ago

Hi asergio,

which article do you refer to?

Sergio Monteiro
Sergio Monteiro 11 years ago

Very nice. The article I posted cites that 8 different descriptions were made of the same species!

tmvdh
tmvdh 12 years ago

Hola Juan,

me puedes contactar via correo electrónico?
Tengo una pregunta con respecto a Pachycoris torridus. (Encontré un espécimen en Costa Rica.)

Gracias y saludos

Torsten (tmvdh@web.de)

Juan DiTrani
Juan DiTrani 12 years ago

I still find hard to believe this insect is the same specie of this one http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/641...

KarenL
KarenL 12 years ago

Lovely!

Ismael Chaves
Ismael Chaves 12 years ago

Este es hermoso

LarsKorb
LarsKorb 12 years ago

Camou-King...excellent.

CataAna
CataAna 12 years ago

Wow, what a beautiful bug!

Juan DiTrani
Spotted by
Juan DiTrani

Colón, Panama

Spotted on Apr 3, 2007
Submitted on Jun 12, 2011

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