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Diamphidia, or Bushman arrow-poison beetle, is an African genus of flea beetles, in the family Chrysomelidae. The larvae and pupae of Diamphidia produce a toxin used by Bushmen as an arrow poison. [1] [2] The Finnish explorer Hendrik Jacob Wikar, who travelled in Southern Africa in 1773–1779, described the larvae as "poisonous worms".
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The following are lists of insects of Great Britain. There are more than 20,000 insects of Great Britain, [1] this page provides lists by order.
Legnotus picipes – heath shield bug; Canthophorus impressus – bastard toadflax bug; Tritomegas bicolor (formerly Sehirus bicolor) – pied shield bug; Tritomegas sexmaculatus – Rambur's pied shield bug; Adomerus biguttatus – cow wheat shield bug; Sehirus luctuosus – forget-me-not shield bug; Geotomus punctulatus – Cornish shield bug
Land and Water Bugs of the British Isles. Warne. Ryan, Rob (2012). "An addendum to Southwood and Leston's Land and Water Bugs of the British Isles". British Journal of Entomology and Natural History. 25 (4): 205-215. Foster, Stuart (2013). "Coranus aethiops Jakovlev (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) - new to Britain, from South Yorkshire".
These amphibians usually sequester toxins from animals and plants on which they feed, commonly from poisonous insects or poisonous plants. Except certain salamandrid salamanders that can extrude sharp venom-tipped ribs, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and two species of frogs with venom-tipped bone spurs on their skulls, amphibians are not known to actively inject ...
The Brazilian treehopper (Bocydium globulare) is a species of insect [1] belonging to the treehopper family (Membracidae). [2] It has unusual appendages on its thorax. While Bocydium can be found throughout the world, they are most prevalent in Africa, North and South America, Asia and Australia. [3]
They are the largest insects in the order Hemiptera. [1] There are about 170 species found in freshwater habitats worldwide, with more than 110 in the Neotropics, more than 20 in Africa, almost as many in the Nearctic, and far fewer elsewhere. [2] These predators are typically encountered in freshwater ponds, marshes and slow-flowing streams.