Austroplatypus

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Austroplatypus

Genus of beetles

Austroplatypus is a genus of weevils native to Australia that includes Austroplatypus incompertus, the first beetle to be recognized as a eusocial insect. Members of the genus live in eucalypt trees and their fungal galleries can persist for decades because the host tree is not being killed.[1][2]

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References

  1. [1]
    Science: The Australian beetle that behaves like a bee
  2. [2]
    Kent, D. S., and J. A. Simpson 1992. Eusociality in the beetle Austroplatypus incompertus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Naturwissenschaften 79:86-87.


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