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Calopteron
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Calopteron

Calopteron is a genus of net-winged beetles in the family Lycidae.

They are toxic and have aposematic coloration. Some species of moths are mimics (Lycomorpha pholus, Pyromorpha dimidiata).

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31 branches of this genus, 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 84614.