( Weird creatures turn up in my dreams from time to time, and I thought it would be a good idea to sketch them out and set free their bizarre awesomeness)
Yellow Submarine Beetles
Found: Central America, South-east Asia, little children's nightmares
A male yellow submarine beetle
Appearance: (TL;DR Very bizarre and awesome) These are visually stunning insects, with very prominent transparent tentacles that perform a variety of biological functions including absorption of nutrients, sensory perception, self defense and hosting parasites like the Flots Fly. A fully grown adult male can have as many as eight tentacles and hundreds of legs. The tentacles can alter their length and breadth by a factor of 10. Think about that.
Behavior: They are generally docile and move slowly but their lethality comes from the flots flies that they have co-evolved with. A single beetle can house millions of flots flies (a collection of which is known as a flute). In the presence of danger, a flute of flots flies are pneumatically exhaled by the beetle. These flies are often called the piranhas of the insect world, because they are voracious creatures and can decimate an entire population of flowering plants in mere minutes.
The moronthea plant and the flots fly have an unusual attraction to each other, which is why all three species are often found in the same region. When a flots fly is in the vicinity, the moronthea plant involuntarily gravitates towards the fly. Then, the flots fly proceeds to digest its flowers. Why the Moronthea plant has not yet been selected out, baffles scientists even today.
A Flots Fly decimates a Moronthea flower
Effect on humans: In environments where yellow submarine beetles, flots flies and moronthea plants are found, 'beetle fever' has been diagnosed. Symptoms include imagining there's no countries, wondering where all the lonely people come from and believing that one is living in a yellow submarine. The disease caused an epidemic in the 60s, but was alleviated by the introduction of dancing zombies.