Acidic Toxibeetle

The Acidic Toxibeetle is a small enemy encountered in Pikmin: Echoes of Eternity. It's main feature is a dual color scheme, with green stripes on one side and purple triangles on the other. It utilizes both poison and acid attacks, but never at the same time.

Strategy
This enemy moves fast, similar to an Iridescent Flint Beetle. Sometimes it will stop and glow either green or purple. The color corresponds to which elemental attack it will utilize. It then produces a scythe-like claw from its thorax and will slash with either a poison or acidic aura. This is its only attacking move, so if the player has ample amounts of White and Green Pikmin, this foe shouldn't be a problem.

Encyclopaedia animerros

 * "Acilero Venenus, kingdom Animalia, phylum insettocrustia, class endopteria, family Toxoid. This quadrupedal insect is nimble and feasts on underground foliage. When threatened, it will use a scythe appendage to slash it's attacker. This species has evolved the ability to utilize both poisonous gas and acidic liquid in its slashing attacks. What pressured this creature into this adaptation is still a mystery..."