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Spotting

Description:

about 1.5 in, looks like a type of roach

Habitat:

tropical rainforest

Notes:

This is definitely one of the nicer looking roaches I've seen.

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9 Comments

Dan Doucette
Dan Doucette 11 years ago

Thanks Adarsha and Argy.

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 11 years ago

Gorgeous beetle Dan.

Adarsha B S
Adarsha B S 11 years ago

Love those colors !

Dan Doucette
Dan Doucette 11 years ago

Thanks for all the comments! Lauren you might be right with Erotylidae, but I haven't found any similar matches yet.

Muckpuk
Muckpuk 11 years ago

If that is a roach I will like them from now on....(only that specific kind tho :-)

NICE bug!

YukoChartraw
YukoChartraw 11 years ago

Beautiful!

KeithRoragen
KeithRoragen 11 years ago

Absolutely gorgeous beetle.

LaurenZarate
LaurenZarate 11 years ago

Maybe Erotylidae, Pleasing Fungus Beetle....

LaurenZarate
LaurenZarate 11 years ago

What a beauty. Has to be one of the fungus beetle families.

Dan Doucette
Spotted by
Dan Doucette

Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia

Spotted on Dec 2, 2012
Submitted on Apr 25, 2013

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