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Guides

• Bolitophagus

  Bolitophagus is a genus of darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae) described by Illiger in 1798. The genus occurs across Eurasia and North America. The best-studied species, Bolitophagus reticulatus, is a saproxylic beetle that develops exclusively in fruiting bodies of the wood-decaying fungus Fomes fomentarius.

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