ItalianTermiteMan
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Just quickly sharing another specimen from my collection: a beautiful male of Chrysophora chrysochlora.
This is a large and impressive south American scarab beetle from the subfamily Rutelinae, which contain some of the brightest jewels of the beetle world. Both sexes sport a majestic metallic green color with a golden sheen when wiewed from the right angles (the "chryso" in the name of both the genus and species refer to that) and an exquisite texturization of the elytra, but males are even more impressive due to their massively developed and interestingly shaped hind legs employed to grasp females during mating and possibly fight other males aswell.
Specimen origin: Peru.
C. chrysophora, male. Note the majestic hind leg and blue tarsi.
A closer look at the specimen's elytra and their intricate texture.
This is a large and impressive south American scarab beetle from the subfamily Rutelinae, which contain some of the brightest jewels of the beetle world. Both sexes sport a majestic metallic green color with a golden sheen when wiewed from the right angles (the "chryso" in the name of both the genus and species refer to that) and an exquisite texturization of the elytra, but males are even more impressive due to their massively developed and interestingly shaped hind legs employed to grasp females during mating and possibly fight other males aswell.
Specimen origin: Peru.
C. chrysophora, male. Note the majestic hind leg and blue tarsi.
A closer look at the specimen's elytra and their intricate texture.
