My Mystery Bug

Task:
In class we were given images of bugs without any information about them. Our job is to do some investigating to find out what this bug could be. 

Here is an image of the bug that I was given: 

 

Process:
My searching process began with me trying to find websites that would help me detect this bug. I found many great websites, but none that were able to help me find what I was looking for. After looking online for websites, I also tried to find apps on my phone. I wasn't getting much information from the apps either. By this point of looking at different bugs I was pretty confident that this was some kind of beetle. Then I went to Google and searched this bug by its different characteristics. I still wasn't seeing any bugs that were similar. I continued to look online, on youtube, even Facebook and Instagram. I ended up back on Google images and started to find some similar beetles:

  
Conclusion: 
Still I knew these beetles were not the same exact one that I was looking for. I continued with the search and came across a beetle that is extremely similar. Other than the color differences which could simply be the camera that captured them, I believe that my bug is a Leaf Chafer Beetle. 

Information: 
🐛Their scientific name is Chrysophora chrysochlora.
🐛 They live in Northern regions of South America, the Rainforest's of Peru and Ecuador.
🐛The mature Leaf Chafer Beetles eat flowers and leaves.
🐛They typically range from 0.98-1.57 inches.
🐛My image is of a female, the males are larger. 

🐛They belong to the scarab beetle family 

Sources:

http://www.lifeintherainforest.org/shining-leaf-chafer-beetle
http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Chrysophora_chrysochlora


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