Laminated Specimen

Real nymph of Wrinkle Bug - Cyclopelta parva and Big-head Ant - Pheidologeton diversus specimen laminated in square plastic sheet. The specimens are clear, transparent and indestructible. Safe, authentic and completely unbreakable product put the specimens at your fingertips!

Anyone can safely explore the specimens both sides.

Length of the bug body is 1.0 cm (0.4 inch) and ant body is 0.8 cm (0.3 inch).

Size of the lamination sheet is 7.5x7.5 cm (3x3 inch).

This is a handmade real 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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Wrinkle Bug - Cyclopelta parva

Body dark brown , dull . Length 12 to 15 mm , oval, 6 to 10 mm width of the body . Small head, antennae black , 4 second , three little flat . After the top half of pronotum and scutellum , there are many fine transverse wrinkles , so that small wrinkle bug . Scutellum leading edge of the center is a red and yellow dots , sometimes the end also has a small yellow dot . Scutellum triangular , covered abdomen fourth quarter . Its base edge of the central often brown or reddish-brown small spots on the back of the abdomen is red-brown , the central sections of both side edges with red brown horizontal stripes ; ventral reddish brown. Barbed leg section below . Fecundity ventral slightly concave section , longitudinal, deep concave trailing edge ; ventral male reproductive integrity section , slightly swelled, the trailing edge of the arc-shaped . Eggs are barrel-shaped , beige initially produced , hatching pink or dark brown. Egg length of 0.8 to 1 mm , width of 0.8 to 0.95 mm, egg cover eggs. An age when body length of 1.7 to 2 mm , head width 0.5 to 0.8 mm . Pink when newly hatched , when nearly peeling head and chest become red -brown. Between the compound eyes and antennae dark red . Abdomen reddish . 5th instar ( last instar , mature nymphs ) 12 to 14 mm in length , head width of 1.7 to 2 mm . Pronotum with two semicircular brown symmetrical pattern, scutellum triangle , edge color depth.
Soil surface a one generation to adults gathered under the acacia trees in the winter, wintering places overgrown with weeds . In mid- March the following year began overwintering activities often climbed out activities at noon , before sunset back to the surface, but not feeding. With the weather warming, the overwintering adults will not return to the surface, mostly concentrated in the relatively early germination of weeds and locust rhizosphere . Locust blossom ( April , the mid- ) start feeding on acacia sap began in mid- May mating, spawning began in mid- June , late June to mid- July peak of spawning , spawning in early August to late . In late June the eggs begin to hatch eggs duration of approximately 15 days ; nymph focused on egg masses around 1-4 years old shoot feeding, duration of approximately 55 days , nymphs peeling five mid-August after emergence . Adults since late September under a tree in winter , to early November all into hibernation sites .
Located in Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan , Fujian, Guangdong, Yunnan and other places. Hazard locust , Amorpha , lespedeza , Ge of other garden plants , mainly in the nymph cluster sucking when the victim shoots of plants, saplings of whole dead cause serious harm.

Big-head Ant - Pheidologeton diversus

Distribution: Tropical and sub-tropical Asia (China, Taiwan, Japan)

Description: Total length between 1.3 and 2.5 mm in minor workers. Body color yellowish brown to reddish brown in minor workers: reddish brown to blackish brown in majors. In minor workers: head rectangular with weakly convex posterior margin in full face view; mandibles each with 5 teeth; antennal scapes short, not exceeding posterior margin of head; each of the apical two funicular segments long, their combined length longer than the rest of funiculus; promesonotum relatively strongly convex in profile; metanotal groove deeply incised; dorsum of propodeum convex; propodeal spines long, with acute apices. In major workers: head proportionately large, almost square, with convex posterior margin in frontal view; anterior margin of clypeus straight, with a shallow median notch; mandibles large, triangular, with an acute apical tooth; masticatory margins without distinct teeth; eyes relatively small; ocelli present; antennal scapes 0.5 times as long as head; subpetiolar process present.