Porrostoma rhipidium is a animal in the Lycidae family, order Coleoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.
Porrostoma rhipidium
Porrostoma rhipidius is a widely Australian species of net-winged beetle, whose name is often misspelled as rhipidium.
Porrostoma rhipidius is a species of net-winged beetle belonging to the family Lycidae, and it is widely distributed across Australia. This species name is sometimes incorrectly spelled as "rhipidium". Under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) Article 31, species names that are nouns, including rhipidius, must keep their original spelling, no matter what genus the species is placed in.
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Platerodrilus ruficollis Pic, 1942
Lycus sanguineus Gorham, 1884
Dictyoptera aurora (Herbst, 1784)
Pyropterus nigroruber (De Geer, 1774)
Calopteron discrepans (Newman, 1838)
Lycus sanguinipennis Say, 1823
Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer
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