Soft-wing Flower Beetle (IMAGE)

Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz

Soft-wing Flower Beetle

Caption

The soft-wing flower beetle (Dasytes plumbeus) is dependent on symbionts to construct its exoskeleton.

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(photo/©: Benjamin Weiss, JGU)

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This image may only be used in connection with the press release "ERC Consolidator Grant for research on relationship between beetles and symbiotic bacteria", issued by Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz on December 28, 2018.

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