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The world's rarest beetle: an entomological mystery

The world's rarest beetle: an entomological mystery

A short note on things we don't know

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Cody DeYoung
May 10, 2024
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Ancient forests cover Russia’s Sikhote Alin region, only known home of the world’s most mysterious beetle. Photo © WWF Russia. https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/766/gallery/

‘No man can truly be called an entomologist, sir; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp’

-Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Poet at the Breakfast Table (1872)

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