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Cracked Paintjob - _TNY_6271

This is a click beetle known as Selatosomus aeneus. Look at the top of the pronotum, right behind the head - it looks like the "paint" has cracked there and a big flake has come off.

 

No idea how this happened. I mean, it's not like the colouration on beetles are pinted on so I can't understand how a piece would chip off.

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Uploaded on June 7, 2022
Taken on June 24, 2020