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Pharaxonotha floridana
Pharaxonotha floridana is a species of pleasing fungus beetle in the family Erotylidae. It has been reported only from Florida.
This beetle critically depends on the coontie cycad (Zamia integrifolia) to survive; while it eats some of the cycad's pollen, it also pollinates the cycad. Even though the relationship is not a symbiosis in the strict sense (because the beetles slightly damage the cycads) and not a two-way obligatory mutualism either (because Z.integrifolia also employs the belid weevil Rhopalotria slossoni as pollinator), the survival of P.floridana and Z.integrifolia is still closely connected.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1043261.