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Peltochares
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Peltochares

Peltochares is a genus of water scavenger beetles in the family Hydrophilidae represented by eight described species. It is distributed across the Afrotropical, Australasian, Indo-Malayan, and Palaearctic realms.

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Peltochares atropiceus

speciesPeltochares atropiceus

Peltochares longipalpis

speciesPeltochares longipalpis

Peltochares conspicuus

speciesPeltochares conspicuus

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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 1137592.