Nose-jawed Flat Bark Beetle

Metaxyphloeus texanus

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Laemophloeidae

Metaxyphloeus is a genus of beetles in the family Laemophloeidae, making a part of a small group of rostrate laemophloeid genera endemic to the New World. These beetles are distributed from southern Texas south to Bolivia. The genus is closely related other rostrate genera such as Rhinomalus and Rhinophloeus.

Distribution

Nose-jawed Flat Bark Beetle — (c) Sam Kieschnick, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 1

Sources and credits

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Nose-jawed Flat Bark Beetle

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