Shield backed bug

Please, update your spotttings! Thanks.

Please can you put in the right name.

Hi Tiberio! Now that Martin has taken the time to identify this for you please can you add the common & scientific names in edit so this can come off of the unidentified list. Thanks!

This beautiful bug is called a shield backed bug because we are seeing not the back wing covers (elytra) that we see in beetles but an enlarged scutellum, the triangle plate typical but tiny in most other true bugs. This is the same bug that Juan has spotted and identified here
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/643...

Shape like a Harlequin bug.

it seems to be Pentatomidae

beautiful beetle

nice shoot!

wow, incredilble

What a cute little bug!

Fantastic catch

It's interesting, I have a simillar spot in Panama
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/643...

What nice clothes it has..

Gina, I don't think this is a beetle, which has chewing mouth parts, but a true bug, which has sucking mouth parts. But yes, it's very cool looking.

cool looking beetle! very nice color too!

Looks like a Scutelleridae sp: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scutellerid...