The first long-horned beetle giving birth to live young discovered in Borneo
Wednesday, May 11, 2016 - 18:21
in Biology & Nature
This is a male specimen of the new long-horned beetle species Borneostyrax cristatus gen. et sp. nov. A remarkably high diversity of the wingless long-horned beetles in the mountains of northern Borneo is reported by three Czech researchers from the Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic. Apart from the genera and species new to science, the entomologists report the first case of reproduction by live birth in this rarely collected group of beetles.