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Metaleptus batesi
Metaleptus batesi is a species of longhorn beetle (Cerambycidae) described by George Henry Horn in 1885. The specific epithet 'batesi' honors Henry Walter Bates, the English naturalist who first described Batesian mimicry while studying butterflies in Brazilian rainforests. The genus Metaleptus belongs to the tribe Trachyderini within the subfamily Cerambycinae. Very few documented observations of this species exist in public databases.