Lantern-fly (Pyrops candelaria) to be found commonly on Longan and Lychee trees,and occasionally on Acacia and other trees in tropical regions. Usually they sit quietly on the tree trunk or branches where their coloration is quite cryptic, but if disturbed they fly revealing the bright yellow hindwings with their black borders.

They are called Lantern-flies or Lantern Bugs because it was once supposed that the elongate rostrum had bioluminescent properties. The snout does contain a number of delicate sense organs, but its function is not known.

The nymphs are gregarious and produce copious wax so are festooned with long waxy filaments which makes a flattid infestation on a tree very distinctive. The adults are also gregarious and in Africa a species is dimorphic and the adults sit together on a cluster representing a red flower with unopened green buds above.

Located in Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan; Abroad recorded in India and Sikkim.
     20-23 mm in length (from the compound eye to the end of the abdomen), the first sudden 15-18 mm, 70-81 mm Fin Show. First Reserve brown back, with a micro-green sheen; Forward bending over putting on the conical protuberances; The first complex of scattered white spots are irregular. Compound eyes dark brown. Tentacles short. The two expansion black. Chest brown color certificates; Chest backplane two deep middle of Xiaokeng; Thoracodorsal plate in front of a cone of four black splash. Rear engaging in yellow, and brown ventral, the post with a narrow margin of yellow, dark brown abdomen at the end of the anal canal. Nov tobacco brown background, with green veins and mesh Wen Huang incalculable edge to the whole show green-winged green to yellow; After fin yellow, brown vertex area. Foot tawny.
     Ears in a generation. The main hazards longan, blue; Also against litchi, Chinese tallow tree, and yellow and Mulberry.

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