jewel scarab

English

Noun

jewel scarab (plural jewel scarabs)

  1. A scarab of the genus Chrysina: brightly coloured, often metallic iridescent species of ruteline beetles found from the southwestern edge of the United States to Central America.
    • 2001, Y.E.S. Quarterly:
      […] jewel scarabs can also detect certain chemicals only found in smoke from burning wood. Research says that they might be able to even tell the difference between the species of trees, so that they might lay their eggs in a particular [one].
    • 2008, Christopher Marley, Pheromone: The Insect Artwork of Christopher Marley, Pomegranate Communications:
      Jewel scarab (Chrysina chrysiagarea), Costa Rica / A singular chrome sheen adorns both this jewel scarab and the silver satyr butterfly, making them a perfectly monochromatic pairing.
    • 2011, National Geographic, True Or False Animal Cards, National Geographic Books, →ISBN, page 97:
      […] jewel scarab beetles. Jewel scarab beetles range in color from metallic gold to shiny green. A jewel scarab beetle's bling makes it stand out. FALSE. Their shiny colors provide camouflage, often by reflecting the color of leaves […]
    • 2024 October 12, Gábor Horváth, Polarization Vision and Environmental Polarized Light, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 185:
      Li et al. (2023) wrote that 'While the [one] jewel scarab, Chrysina gloriosa, can distinguish circularly polarized light, another jewel scarab, C. woodi, exhibits no phototactic discrimination between linear and circularly polarized light (Brady and Cummings 2010)'.
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