Mariellidae

Mariellidae is an explosive Neopteron found primarily in tropical and forested regions.

Physiology
Mariellidae are Neopterons which resembles a ladybird beetle, having a largely red-colored back with black spots. Its head and set of three foremost legs are colored black with its legs also having red spots at the top while its underside is a lighter red. Its rear leg is colored more like a reddish gray. It also has two darker red plates above its head and back. These plates also have an even darker red pattern on them, being almost black. Its eyes and antennae are colored green.

Behavior
Mariellidae are rather docile monsters which will only attack when they feel threatened or are provoked. However, as it's quite easily provoked, caution is required around this Neopteron if one doesn't mean harm to it.

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Special Behaviors
Mariellidae seem to have a bond with Seltas as it will happily fight alongside it. Furthermore, it also seems to have a hatred for Seltas Queen due to how they treat the male Seltas. As such, it will sometimes attack a Seltas Queen that's in the same area as it.

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Abilities
The Mariellidae uses several different techniques to defend itself from foes. It has a paralysing dust which it can use to make its foes unable to attack for a short period of time, and when it gets enraged, a chemical within its body ignites the dust and makes it explosive. It can also secrete a foul smelling liquid which will soil the opponent.

Also Mariellidae is able to "shield" several parts of its own body such as wings,legs, head, claws and shell. The shield is a static loaded dust of its own paralysis powder. It will "clean" its claws, which have fine hair, and extract the spores from a special sac in its mouth and will then proceed to cover the wished body part. After that it will "charge" the spores simular like Zinogre does, which will take a few seconds.

After charging the body part that is covered with the spores it will create a shield, causing any hunter that touches these parts to be either paralyzed or stunned. Also it uses those shields to inflict paraylsis statuses to its attacks. In rage mode the spore is modified with an agressive chemical produced in its stomach causing the paralysis spores to become explosive and causing the blastblight.

Rage and Tired States

 * Rage State: When enraged, any attacks that would've caused paralysis now cause Blastblight.
 * Tired State: When tired, the Mariellidae cannot perform any liquid based attacks.

Frenzy, Apex, Hyper and Tempered
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Taxonomy
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Behavior
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 * Roar: Vaprokhos will roar in a similar manner to Trakhios, both when in the air and on the ground.
 * Steam Jet: Vaprokhos will use pressurized steam and its layered armor to propel itself around in any direction, away or towards hunters which it can also combo into a wide variety of attacks.
 * Steam Cloud: Vaprokhos will release a large cloud of steam from its body, but not propel itself anywhere, instead trying to hide its movements with the large cloud of steam to make it more difficult for hunters to see what attack it will be doing next. The cloud will disappear after a short while. If hunters are near to the Vaprokhos when it does this, they can be knocked be knocked down and afflicted with Waterblight and Fireblight.
 * Steam Blast: Vaprokhos will shoot a blast of pressurized steam towards a hunter which can knock them down and cause Waterblight and Fireblight.
 * Acid Blast: Vaprokhos will shoot out a blast of its acidic spit towards a hunter which can knock them down and cause Defense Down.
 * Triple Steam Blasts: Vaprokhos will shoot three blasts of pressurized steam one after another towards hunters in fashion akin to Rathian. This attack can knock hunters down and cause Waterblight and Fireblight.
 * Trident Steam Blasts: Vaprokhos will shoot three blasts of pressurized steam in a trident shape towards hunters. This attack can knock hunters down and cause Waterblight and Fireblight.
 * Disruption Roar: Vaprokhos will do a different motion than usual before roaring and suddenly release a roar that

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