Real Blister Beetle (Mylabris phalerata) specimen encased in clear lucite material. The specimen is crystal clear, indestructible and transparent. Safe, authentic and completely unbreakable product put real Beetle right at your fingertips! 

Anyone can safely explore the Beetle from different angles.

Length of the Beetle body is 3 cm (1.2 inch).

Size of the lucite block is 7.3x4.1x2.4 cm (2.9x1.6x0.9 inch).

Weight of the lucite block is 120 g and 150 g with packing box.

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.
 

It is a very good collectible item for every body. 

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Blister Beetle - Mylabris phalerata

Mylabris is the dried beetle, Mylabris phalerata, Pallas (Order Coleoptera), which is abundant in China and Eastern India. The beetles are about 25 millimetres long and 9 millimetres broad; wing-cases black, with three broad, wavy, orange-yellow bands, which, when examined under a lens, are seen to bear black bristly hairs. The odour is disagreeable. M. Cichorii, which is often present in the drug, is smaller, and has brighter yellow bands, covered with a yellow downy pubescence, the hairs on the back part being black.

M. phalerata: With an oblong body, a triangular head, two large compound eyes, whippy and semented antennae. On the chest there is a pair of black leathery elytra with three orange, broad and transverse striae, and two membranous wings under the elytra. Feet in three pairs, usually dropped. Abdomen annularly segmented, covered with black hairs. Unpleasant in odour. M. cichoni: Smaller, with yellow hairs and yellow brown transverse striae on the wings. Both are acrid in taste, cold in nature, strongly toxic, and attributive to liver and stomach channels.