Beetle With Termite-Style Antennas Found in Mainland China for First…

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentHere it is, the story we hinted at: a beetle with termite-style antennas has been found in mainland China for the first time, in Guangdong and Jiangxi provinces, and it has been named Trochoideus sinensis.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentTermite antennas on a beetle. That's a costume, bro.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentIt's a handsome fungus beetle.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentMales have just four or five antennal segments, with the last one or two swollen into plates and clubs, and adults may have a symbiotic link with Nasutitermes termites.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentPlates and clubs. So it showed up to the party with two accessories nobody asked for.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThe paper in ZooKeys brings the worldwide count of this subfamily to twenty-two species. Kenji, that's a real number, not a follower count.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentTwenty-two. That's a very exclusive group chat.