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Carausius abbreviatus (PSG 109)

       Is it just me or does Carausius abbreviatus look a lot like a Lonchodes sp.?  The patterning on the backs of the 3rd-instar specimens remind me a bit of Lamponius guerini. 

Foodplant: bramble

Mature female

Mature female (note flanged legs)

Is this the Adult Male of abbreviatus (P. auriculatus males look like this too)

Female left, male right male

4th-instar 3rd instar

1st instar

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