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Pink Coreid - Spartocera batatas
Copyright © 2006 Sean McCann

Pink Coreid - Spartocera batatas
Vero Beach, Indian River County, Florida, USA
January 12, 2006
Found along with , perhaps this is a diffeent morph of the same species.
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Contributed by Sean McCann on 13 January, 2006 - 1:05pm

Freshly eclosed.
"Pink" hemipterans and "albino" cockroaches are simply individuals that have just emerged from a molt, and not yet achieved full pigmentation. Emergence is termed "eclosion;" and soft, unpigmented individuals fresh from a molt are called "tenerals" or "callows," if they are now adults. Maybe we can put those terms in the glossary??
… Eric R. Eaton, 13 January, 2006 - 1:39pm login or register to post comments

 
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I suspected that might be the case. Where is the glossary?
… Sean McCann, 13 January, 2006 - 2:21pm login or register to post comments

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