Divales bipustulatus (Fabricius, 1781) is a animal in the Melyridae family, order Coleoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Divales bipustulatus (Fabricius, 1781)

Divales bipustulatus (Fabricius, 1781)

Divales bipustulatus is a small black beetle with humeral red elytral patches found in Southern Europe and North Africa.

Family
Genus
Divales
Order
Coleoptera
Class
Insecta

About Divales bipustulatus (Fabricius, 1781)

Divales bipustulatus, first described by Fabricius in 1781, reaches an adult body length of 5 to 5.5 millimetres, which equals 0.20 to 0.22 inches. Its body is glossy, deep black, covered in fine erect hairs. Antennae and legs are entirely black. The elytra of this beetle species have two red humeral patches. This species occurs in France, Italy, Switzerland, Greece, and North Africa.

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Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Coleoptera Melyridae Divales

More from Melyridae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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