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Toadily Awesome - Gelastocoris oculatus

Toadily Awesome - Gelastocoris oculatus
Lakewood, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA
August 30, 2006
Unknown toad bug

Moved
Moved from Gelastocoris.

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Moved from ID Request.

Gelastocoris oculatus?
Pretty good match with this one.

 
highly variable patterns?
Thanks for the suggestion. Would you happen to know how variable these critters are color-wise within sp.? I found another one parked in genus that looks nearly identical.


 
Color patterns
Not sure about the range of color patterns, however, these bugs seem to be able to blend into their environment like this one. Some of the pattern may be just debris from the immediate area. I do not know if they are able to adopt a camouflage.

 
4 Gelastocoris according to University of Colorado
University of Colorado has 4 Gelastocoris in their collection. I can't find a key or images of all 4 sp. anywhere.

http://cumuseum.colorado.edu/Research/Entomology/Databases/Spplist/Species12.html

Gelastocoris bufo
Gelastocoris hungerfordi
Gelastocoris rotundatus
Gelastocoris oculatus

 
PDF
The first 2 species on your list are mentioned on several websites as having a range of Mexico and South and the other 2 species range includes the US. A large (33.72MB) PDF is available here from US Archive, Harvard University Library. It is a University of Kansas Science Bulletin from 1955. Keys to Gelastocoris sp. start on page 296. I am not sure how useful it is but it may be of interest.

 
thanks - had a look
I grabbed the doc and had a look at it. Unfortunately this photographer doesn't understand the "big words" enough to decipher for ID purposes :-)
I do appreciate the link. It's interesting.

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