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Palaestes
Palaestes is a genus of beetles in the family Cucujidae. It contains eight currently recognized species. Like all members of the Cucujidae, adults are greatly dorso-ventrally compressed. All known species of Palaestes are brightly colored red or yellow and black, and the males have curiously modified mandibles that look like ice tongs; female mandibles are not modified. Palaestes shares with the Australian-New Zealand genus Platisus the character of the male genitalia, which lacks a flagellum, lying...
8 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Palaestes nicaraguae
speciesPalaestes nicaraguae
Palaestes abruptus
speciesPalaestes abruptus
Palaestes freyreissi
speciesPalaestes freyreissi
Palaestes nigriceps
speciesPalaestes nigriceps
Palaestes nigridens
speciesPalaestes nigridens
Palaestes scutellaris
speciesPalaestes scutellaris
Palaestes tenuicornis
speciesPalaestes tenuicornis
Palaestes variipes
speciesPalaestes variipes
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 971772.