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Tenuisvalvae parenthesis
Tenuisvalvae parenthesis is a species of beetle of the family Coccinellidae. It is found in Colombia and Venezuela.
From the article Tenuisvalvae parenthesis on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Adults reach a length of about 3.2–3.5 mm. They have a yellow body, the head with borders black. The basal border of the pronotum is black. The elytron has two short vitta and the suture is narrowly black with a parenthesis shaped vitta. There is also a small triangular spot in the posterior half.
In human culture
The species is named for the curved elytral vitta reminiscent of a parenthesis.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Etymology”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 606182.