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Three-punctured Diving Beetle
Cybister tripunctatus
Cybister tripunctatus, is a species of predaceous diving beetle found in India, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Bhutan, China, Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Russia, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Italy, Turkey, Uzbekistan and Europe.
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Description
Nominate subspecies has a typical length is about 28 mm. A carnivorous large beetle feeds on tadpoles, fish, and aquatic insects such as Culex spp., chironomids, and notonectid nymphs, damselfly larvae, Pantala flavescens. It also feeds on sympatric relatives such as Cybister brevis and Cybister chinensis.
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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 201892.