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Brachysternus prasinus
Brachysternus prasinus is a species of scarab beetle endemic to Chile and parts of Argentina. It was named after French entomologist Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville and belongs to the Rutelinae subfamily of the Scarabaeidae family. It is the most common among all Brachysternus species and the most varied in terms of color and type of setae. Due to this variability, B. prasinus have often been used in entomological studies as the species with which to compare all...
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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 471271.