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Coleoptera
Photo take in a mangrove area far from coast this beetle moves on the floor near the street and i place it on a tree, bright gold color whit some green and red metallic colors. about 2 cm long really beautiful i have seen this ones many times only in the rain season. The order Coleoptera includes more species than any other order, constituting almost 25% of all known life-forms.About 40% of all described insect species are beetles about 400,000 species, and new species are discovered frequently. Some estimates put the total number of species, described and undescribed, at as high as 100 million, but a figure of 1 million is more widely accepted. The largest taxonomic family, the Curculionidae (the weevils or snout beetles), also belongs to this order.
The diversity of beetles is very wide. They are found in all major habitats, except marine and the polar regions. Wikipedia.
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