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Rich pink wings. Branched antennae.
Chilapata Forest is a dense forest near Jaldapara National Park in Dooars, Alipurduar district, West Bengal, India. This photo was taken in the garden (it is not tended much but left to grow wild as the second photo shows) of the Chilapata Jungle Lodge which is located right where the jungle ends.
Oh well...will start looking at more photos again.
Spotted on Jun 7, 2016
Submitted on Jul 14, 2016
5 Comments
Thank you for your input MichaelGeiser...I suppose the hunt for ID begins again.
It is indeed a Lycidae (net-winged beetle), but the species is not Dictyoptera aurora. It may be a species of Calochromus, but I'm not sure. The species identified on http://www.natureloveyou.sg is misidentified, and probably a species of Lyponia. There are many hundreds of Lycidae species with the same colour pattern in tropical Asia!
It seems like some of the beetle on that Singaporean website were "identified" using a book or website with beetles from Europe, which obviously has a very different fauna.
I think I got the ID, Heather...your input was precious.
Thanks, Heather....this is big step forward...from being an unknown insect to being included in a Family! Thanks for steering the ID in the right direction..!!! Many, many thanks.
Family Lycidae - net-winged beetles
http://bugguide.net/node/view/172
That's as far as I could get. :)