Coptosomatinae Archives - Singapore Geographic https://www.singaporegeographic.com/tag/coptosomatinae Singapore Biodiversity, List of Wild Animals, Insect, Nature Article that has been recorded in Singapore. Sun, 03 Jan 2021 01:36:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 135464637 Coptosomatinae https://www.singaporegeographic.com/insects/insect/coptosomatinae?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=coptosomatinae https://www.singaporegeographic.com/insects/insect/coptosomatinae#respond Sun, 03 Jan 2021 01:36:08 +0000 https://www.singaporegeographic.com/?p=2541 A bit difficult to identify this insect. As we have discussion with Eehean Yap in the Facebook SG Insect ID and RecordsBelieve it’s in the “Coptosomatinae” as those tend to have a “pseudoscutellum” (to varying degrees of obviousness) and their heads are usually quite narrow, when compared to the Brachyplatys group of plataspids. But this […]

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Believe it’s in the “Coptosomatinae” as those tend to have a “pseudoscutellum” (to varying degrees of obviousness) and their heads are usually quite narrow, when compared to the Brachyplatys group of plataspids. But this subfamilial classification of the Plataspidae is very controversial, and may exclude quite a bit of genera and species.
As per now Dec 2020, we put under this Sub Family Coptosomatinae.

Spotted at Upper Seletar Reservoir – Dec 2020

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