New Species of Rhinoceros Beetle Found in Bolivia

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The new species belongs to the very rare beetle genus Oryctophileurus.

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“Like the other species of the genus, the new species might be rare or has a cryptic way of life,” wrote Dr Robert Perger from the Colección Boliviana de Fauna and Dr Paschoal Grossi from the Universidade Federal do Paraná, co-authors of the paper published in the journal ZooKeys.

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