Insect Key Ring (Shredded Diamond Effect) DK08 - Clear

  --  3 Bug Set

Real Chinese Golden Scorpion - Mesobuthus martensii, Flower Bug (Nymph of Camellia Shield Bug - Poecilocoris latus), Golden Flower Beetle – Mimela specularis specimen encased in indestructible, transparent lucite keychain.

Safe, authentic and completely unbreakable product put real specimens right at your fingertips!

Length of the Scorpion from head to tail is 2.1 cm (0.8 inch).

Size of the Flower Bug is 1.4 cm (0.6 inch).

Length of the beetle body is 1.6 cm (0.6 inch).

Size of the lucite block is 36x36x12 mm (1.4x1.4x0.5 inch).

Weight of each keychain is 30 gram.

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 nice key ring and also a very good collectible item for every body. 

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Chinese Golden Scorpion - Mesobuthus martensii

Order: Scorpiones    Family: Buthidae   Genus: Mesobuthus    Species: M. martensii

Mesobuthus martensii is a species of scorpion in the family Buthidae. Its common names include Chinese scorpion, Manchurian scorpion, Chinese armor-tail scorpion and Chinese golden scorpion. Despite its common name, this scorpion is not only found in Manchuria or China, but also in Mongolia, Korea and Japan. Its preferred habitat is warm, dry areas with little vegetation. M. martensii can grow to about 6 centimetres (2.4 in) long, with females usually slightly larger, and has a life-span of about 4 to 6 years.

M. martensii, especially its tail, has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for many centuries to treat various neuronal problems, such as chronic pain, paralysis, apoplexy and epilepsy. Over the past few decades, dozens of novel proteins in this scorpion's venom have been identified, cloned and investigated for clinical applications. For instance, at least 51 long-chain peptides related to the sodium channel toxins and 18 peptides related to the potassium channel toxins have been described, along with two peptides, BmK AS and AS1, that act on ryanodine receptors. Apart from having analgesic properties, BmK AS is also the first long-chain scorpion peptide reported to have antimicrobial activity. Amongst the sodium channel-specific neurotoxins, there are a number of muscle relaxants, such as makatoxin I and bukatoxin, while BmKAEP and BmK IT2 have shown anticonvulsant activity in experimental conditions, inhibiting epileptic seizures induced in rats. BmK AGAP has both analgesic and antitumor properties and recombinant proteins could potentially be used in anticancer treatments.

Camellia Shield Bug - Poecilocoris latus

Distribution: Southern China, India, Vietnam, Myanmar.

Size: 16 -22 mm

Camellia Shield Bug (Poecilocoris latus,family Pentatomidae, order Hemiptera) is a very attractive and spectacular shield bug to be found on the foliage of Camellia and tea bushes on various hillside slopes in tropical and sup-tropical regions. This insect can produce strong defensive odours from their thoracic glands. Females lay clusters of barrel-shaped eggs on plants. There are five nymphal stages. Nymphs start life as herbivores but later become predators or mixed feeders.

Adults 16-20 mm body length, width 10.5-14 mm wide oval egg diameter of 1.8-2.0 mm, nearly round, beginning at the yellowish-green, a few days later showed two purple long grouper, orange yellow before hatching . Nymph general of 3 mm long, nearly circular, orange yellow, with metallic luster, the age of five. In Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangxi and are 1 year to the end of larvae in the soil crevices or under deciduous winter.
Egg stage 7-10 days, the nymph stage seven, two adult life, or longer.
Damage tea, Camellia oleifera. Nymph on smoking in the tea fruit juice, fruit development impact, and to reduce oil production rate, but also because of the smoking-induced tea in the anthrax, but also cause fruit drop.

Golden Flower Beetle – Mimela specularis

Order: Coleoptera  Suborder: Polyphaga  Infraorder: Scarabaeiformia  Superfamily: Scarabaeoidea  Family: Scarabaeidae  Subfamily: Rutelinae  Tribe: Anomalini
Genus: Mimela

Scarabs (family Scarabaeidae, order Coleoptera) have antennae that end in a kind of club, made up of several movable plates. The males of many species have horns, which they use when fighting over females. Eggs are laid – and larvae can be found -  in soil, the dung of herbivorous mammals, rotten wood, and decaying matter. Some adult dung beetles use their hindlegs to roll fresh dung away in balls before burying the balls and laying their eggs inside. Others bury dung where it is. They can be found worldwide on dung, carrion, decaying matter, fungi, and vegetation; under bark; and in the burrows of vertebrates or in ant and termite nests.