Trilobite Beetle. Photo by Peter Lee Shiuh Hwa.
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If weird insects are your thing, feast your eyes on the weirdest of them all - the trilobite beetle, a creature that looks like it'd be more at home with the dinosaurs than in the forests of present day.
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“@MacIntyreRath also honorable mentions bc I can... tortoise beetle, blue death feigning beetle, (female) trilobite beetle, and a grapevine beetle!”
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˚Trilobite beetle by pbertner @ flickr
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Trilobite Beetle (Platerodrilus ruficollis)
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having read (Mjöberg, 1928) on these marvellous creatures I was very keen on finding one to behold such mystery with my own eyes. Fortuna was smiling when Paul discovered one on a half dead big tree with extensive patches of rotting wood. By means of a small tree close I climbed up to photograph it in situ and to bring it down for further photo-shooting.
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A Book of Rather Strange Animals on Twitter: "Trilobite beetle larvae look exactly like adult females! (Photo: Melvyn Yeo)… "
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Duliticola ruficollis is a species of trilobite beetle, formerly known under an incorrect junior synonym, Duliticola hoiseni.
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The trilobite beetle is a type of net-winged beetle that is found in tropical forests of India and South-east Asia. It is named after its resemblance to trilobites, the extinct marine arthropods that lived from the Early Cambrian to the Late Permian periods.
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Description So this is how a Trilobite beetle looks like underneath. Malaysia. Some wonderful beetles of Malaysia:orionmystery.blogspot.com/2010…
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The Oriental neotenic net-winged beetles attracted attention of biologists due to conspicuous large-bodied females; nevertheless phylogenetic relationships remain contentious and only a few species are known in both the fully metamorphosed males and neotenic ...
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Trilobite Beetle (Platerodrilus ngi) is a Genus of Beetles of the Family Lycidae - Females are about 1½ –3 Inches in Length while the Males are much Smaller, about a ⅓ of a Inch, Resembling Other Beetles - Species are Found in Tropical Rainforests of India and South-East Asia
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More at Trilobite Beetles: "Prehistoric" Creatures of our Forests
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Dulciticola sp. Spectacular insect.
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One of many undescribed beetles in the world, this one from the Phillipines. It bears "trilobite-like" larvae. Scientists now believe the arrival of modern beetles like the one shown predate the dinosaurs by about 70 million years.
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