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Hook-winged Net-winged Beetle

Lycus melanurus

Description:

Small to medium (body length 11-25 mm). Antennae moderately serrate. Pronotum black, with broad orange lateral borders. Elytra with anterior expansion, produces into backward-pointing hooks; base black at centre, frontal half orange, rear half black.

Habitat:

Forest, savanna and grassland.

Notes:

Biology: As for family

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Elsa van Eck
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Elsa van Eck

Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

Spotted on Nov 11, 2021
Submitted on Nov 11, 2021

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