Dramatically bold colored larviform female trilobite beetle with a dark brown body with orange spiky appendages and a pair of orange bumps on the abdominal segments, and broad orange margins and four orange bumps on each of the three thoracic segments. This individual is resting on a green and brown mossy leaf.

Dramatically bold colored female larviform trilobite beetle with a dark brown body with orange spiky appendages and a pair of orange bumps on the abdominal segments, and broad orange margins and four orange bumps on each of the three thoracic segments. This individual's tiny head is visible as it faces the observer

Dramatically bold colored larviform female trilobite beetle with a dark brown body with orange spiky appendages and a pair of orange bumps on the abdominal segments, and broad orange margins and four orange bumps on each of the three thoracic segments. This individual is curled up on a bit of rotting wood. Species may be Platerodrilus paradoxus.

Tan-colored larviform female trilobite beetle with a dark brown body with a faint thin light-brown margin around the thoracic segments and light brown spiky appendages on the abdominal segments. It is resting on a dark piece of wood.

Baby Mama #Beetle. #Trilobite beetles are in #Lycenidae (net-winged beetles). Females are odd because they never #metamorphose to adults, they retain larval looks, but are sexually mature; males are typical lycenids. The orange #Platerodrilus sp. is localized to Mt. #Kinabalu in #Sabah, #Malaysia.