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New click beetle species named after Dominican Republic's Indigenous Arawak people

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New click beetle species named after Dominican Republic's Indigenous Arawak people
来源: Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories

A new species of click beetle with a glossy and highly domed black body has been described from cloud forest sites in the mountains of the Dominican Republic and named in honor of the Arawak peoples who lived on the island before European colonization.

A new species of click beetle with a glossy and highly domed black body has been described from cloud forest sites in the mountains of the Dominican Republic and named in honor of the Arawak peoples who lived on the island before European colonization.

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