| Phaleria bimaculata | |
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| Museum specimen | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Tenebrionidae |
| Genus: | Phaleria |
| Species: | P. bimaculata |
| Binomial name | |
| Phaleria bimaculata (Linnaeus, 1767) | |
Phaleria bimaculata is a species of darkling beetles belonging to the family Tenebrionidae. [1]
Phaleria bimaculata can reach a length of 6–7 millimetres (0.24–0.28 in). Usually head is dark brown, pronotum is brown, while elytrae are pale brown with two large dark brown spots. [2] These small beetles show a high degree of inter-population morphological variability. [3]
This species is present in most of Europe. [4] These darkling beetles live in sandy beaches.
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