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Hemipeplinae
Hemipeplinae is a subfamily of beetles in the family Mycteridae, sometimes referred to by the informal common name palm and flower beetles. The subfamily comprises three genera and, as of a 2025 taxonomic review, 59 described species distributed across the New World, Afrotropical, and Austro-Oriental biogeographic realms.
3 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1164047.

