Paracotalpa is a genus of beetles in the family Scarabaeidae. Their known range is west of the Rocky Mountains, from southern Washington state to California and Arizona. They are nicknamed "little bears" because the adults of the genus have a fuzzy or hairy appearance.
Paracotalpa is a genus of beetles in the family Scarabaeidae. Their known range is west of the Rocky Mountains, from southern Washington state to California and Arizona. They are nicknamed "little bears" because the adults of the genus have a fuzzy or hairy appearance.
== Species == Paracotalpa deserta Saylor, 1940 Paracotalpa granicollis (Haldeman, 1852) Paracotalpa puncticollis (LeConte, 1863) Paracotalpa ursina (Horn, 1867)
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).