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Dircaea
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Dircaea

Dircaea is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Melandryidae. The species of this genus are found in Europe, Japan and North America.

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6 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Blurry-spotted False Darkling Beetle

speciesDircaea liturata

Dircaea quadriguttata

speciesDircaea quadriguttata

Dircaea australis

speciesDircaea australis

Dircaea erotyloides

speciesDircaea erotyloides

Dircaea ussuriensis

speciesDircaea ussuriensis

Northwestern False Darkling Beetle

speciesDircaea horiei

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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 173835.