Real Sword Bug - Megarrhamphus truncates specimen encased in clear lucite material. The specimen is crystal clear, indestructible and transparent. Safe, authentic and completely unbreakable product put real Bug right at your fingertips!

Length of the Bug body is 1.7 cm(0.7 inch).

Size of the lucite block is 4.5x3.0x2.0 cm(1.6x1.2x0.8 inch).

Weight of the specimen is 25 g and 40 g with packing box.

It is an ideal learning aid for students and kids and also a very good collectible item 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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Sword Bug - Megarrhamphus truncates

Order: Hemiptera     Suborder: Heteroptera     Infraorder: Pentatomomorpha      Superfamily: Pentatomoidea      Family: Scutelleridae

Scutelleridae is a family of true bugs. They are commonly known as jewel bugs or metallic shield bugs due to their often brilliant coloration. They are also known as shield-backed bugs due to the enlargement of the last section of their thorax into a continuous shield over the abdomen and wings. This latter characteristic distinguishes them from most other families within Heteroptera, and may lead to misidentification as a beetle rather than a bug. These insects feed on plant juices from a variety of different species, including some commercial crops. Closely related to stink bugs, they may also produce an offensive odour when disturbed. There are around 450 species worldwide.[

Length of body 18 -22 mm, the body color tan, the forehead slightly assumes the triangle, the nose point slender, protothorax back board brown bulging dun streak, small shield board long and narrow yellow vertical strip, is brown, the anterior wing leather nature is red, various feet tan, the first full tibia is red. This kind of distribution in the low elevation mountainous area, often appears on the grasses leaf, the nymphae body color yellow, the body back edge has the black streak. This kind of body is long and narrow, therefore the outward appearance shrimp roe the named big shrimp shells stinkbug, the approximate kind of small shrimp shells stinkbug's build is likely small, the forehead compares the point, is not common.

Ecology habit: The prosopon appears in the spring, the summer two seasons, the low elevation area is obvious. Host food is the gramineae weed, also often perches the activity on the awn leaves of grass.

Distribution: Southern China