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Distocupes
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Distocupes

Distocupes is a monotypic genus of beetles in the family Cupedidae, the reticulated beetles. It contains the single species Distocupes varians. It is endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania. It is about 12 millimeters long and dark brown to black in color with a coat of lighter scales. Little is known about its biology.

Since November 2021, D. varians has been recorded from New Zealand.

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1 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Distocupes varians

speciesDistocupes varians

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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 1317889.