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Tentegia
Sign in to saveTentegia is a genus of weevils native to Australia. It is the only genus of weevils known to engage in coprophagy.
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderColeoptera
- FamilyCurculionidae
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Tentegia is a genus of weevils native to Australia. It is the only genus of weevils known to engage in coprophagy.
==Distribution and habitat== Tentegia species are widely distributed in arid and monsoonal areas of Australia, including parts of New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, and Western Australia, with the Northern Territory hosting the highest number of species.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tentegia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.