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Calopteron
Sign in to savethumb thumb Calopteron is a genus of net-winged beetles in the family Lycidae.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 616
- With media
- 10
- Family
- Lycidae
- Collections
- IBUNAM, IFIT-CP, MHNCA
- Recorded in
- Mexico
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thumb thumb Calopteron is a genus of net-winged beetles in the family Lycidae.
They are toxic and have aposematic coloration. Some species of moths are mimics (Lycomorpha pholus, Pyromorpha dimidiata).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Calopteron” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.