Insect Large Necklace (JSD1 - Clear)

Real Rotten Wood Red Beetle - Bobina emeiica specimen encased in indestructible, transparent acrylic necklace. Safe, authentic and completely unbreakable product put real Beetle right at your fingertips!

Length of the Beetle body is 18 mm (0.7 inch)

Size of the necklace: 43x21x13 mm

Weight of the necklace is 20 g and 35 g with packing box.

It is a beautiful necklace and is a very good collectible item and gift for every body.

This is a handmade real animal specimen craft. Each one will be a bit different (specimen size, color and posture) even in the same production batch.
The pictures in the listing are just for reference as we are selling multiple pieces with same pictures.

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Rotten Wood Red Beetle - Bobina emeiica

Order: Coleoptera  Family: Tenebrionidae  Subfamily: Alleculinae  Tribe: Alleculini   Genus: Bobina

Dorsal surface with punctuation, microgranulation and sparse, pale setation. Body relatively large, elongate, from pale brown to reddish-brown, Body length: 11 to 18 mm, widest near half elytra length, maximum width 3.59 mm, 3.27 times longer than wide.

Head is reddish-brown, relatively small, transverse, with short and sparse pale setation, punctuation, punctures small-sized, microgranulation of posterior part sparse, anterior half and clypeus with dense microgranulation. Head widest across eyes, HW 1.77 mm, approximately 0.60 times as wide as pronotal base. HL (visible part) 1.20 mm. Eyes large, transverse, distinctly excised. Space between eyes very narrow, narrower than diameter of one eye, distinctly narrower than length of antennomere 3, OI equal to 15.92.

Antenna: Filiform, relatively long, (6.88 mm, i.e. reaching 0.59 of body length), pale brown, with short, pale brown setation and microgranulation. Antennomeres 1-3 slightly shiny, antennomeres 4-11 more matte, with sparse punctuation, punctures small-sized. Antennomere 2 shortest, antennomeres 4-11 each longer than antennomere 3. RLA (1-11) equal to 1.11 : 0.46 : 1.00 : 1.97 : 1.74 : 1.82 : 1.89 : 1.79 : 1.78 : 1.76 : 1.64. RL/WA (1-11) equal to 2.86 : 1.38 : 3.27 : 5.92 : 5.95 : 5.70 : 6.18 : 6.45 : 6.10 : 7.47 : 6.94. Maxillary palpus pale brown, with microgranulation and yellow setation. Palpomeres 2-4 distinctly widest at apex, penultimate palpomere shorter than palpomere 2 and ultimate palpomere. Ultimate palpomere in form of long triangle, axe-shaped, slightly darker.

Pronotum: reddish-brown, at base as wide as elytra at base, with sparse pale setation, microgranulation and dense punctuation, punctures medium-sized and slightly Figs. 4-8: Bobina emeiica sp. nov. (male holotype): 4- Habitus; 5- head, pronotum and antennomere 1-4; 6- anterior tibia; 7- aedeagus, dorsal view; 8- aedeagus, lateral view. 5 6 7 8 4 131 coarser; at base 1.66 as wide as head across eyes, longest at middle, PL 1.28 mm, widest at base, PW 2.94 mm. PI equal to 43.54. Borders complete and distinct. Posterior margin bisinuate. Posterior angles roundly sharp-angled, anterior angles distinct, rectangular, lateral margins evenly narrowing from base to anterior part. Anterior margin distinctly excised. Elytra unicolor, reddish-brown, with few short pale setae near lateral margins, EL 9.27 mm; EW 3.59 mm, in base as wide as pronotum base, widest near half elytra length. EL/EW ratio equal to 2.58. Elytral striae with distinct rows of medium-sized punctures, separated by less than one diameter. Surface of elytral intervals with microgranulation and sparse punctuation, punctures very small and shallow, slightly shiny. Suture distinctly darker. Apex of elytra with each elytron terminating separately by very short extension. Elytral epipleura well-developed, reddish-brown as elytron itself, with golden yellow setation in basal half, slightly narrowing to ventrite 1, in apical half, glabrous, parallel-sided. Scutellum small, reddish-brown pentagonal, as colour as elytron itself, with fine microgranulation.

Legs: Brown with golden yellow setation, fine microgranulation and punctuation, punctures very small. Protibia shorter and strong, distinctly bent on inner side near base. Meso and metatibia long and narrow, dilated anteriorly. Femora strong, thicker than tibia. Protarsomere 1-4, mesotarsomere 3 and 4 and metatarsomere 3 of each tarsus distinctly widened, with membranous lobes. RLT 1-5 and 1-4 equal to 1.00 : 0.78 : 1.31 : 1.69 : 3.83 (protarsus), 1.00 : 0.64 : 0.64 : 0.76 : 1.41 (mesotarsus), and 1.00 : 0.36 : 0.27 : 0.52 (metatarsus). Both anterior tarsal claws with 26 visible teeth. Ventral side of body brown, with short pale setation and punctuation, punctures smallsized. Abdomen reddish-brown, with pale setation, microgranulation and shallow punctuation, punctures very small.

Distribution. China (Sichuan).