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Photo by m.prasad.369
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Field Notes

Description:

Length: ~1.00cm
Season : Rainy season
Time : 00:55am 09Dec2021
Frequency : Rare
Life stage : Adult

Habitat:

Spotted inside the car parking very close to open abandoned area with lot of plants.

Notes:

It looks like Chrysocoris purpureus. Ref :
https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/1814058871

Species ID Suggestions

Jewel bug

Chrysocoris patricius (Fabricius, 1798)

Reference Link
Võ Anh Tuấn
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Comments (2)
m.prasad.369
Thank you Võ Anh Tuấn! :) Compared to C.purpureus, C.patricius has 2 more spots on Pronotum and the spots are slightly tilted up on Scutellum.
Võ Anh Tuấn
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/REVISION-OF-THE-GENUS-CHRYSOCORIS-HAHN-(HEMIPTERA%3A-Parveen-Ramamurthy/1f1ad1ba53265721d3af48bbef564a57e2f3def8
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PublishedDecember 9, 2021

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