A beetle named Marco Polo

Tuesday, December 16, 2014 - 17:30 in Biology & Nature

A team of Chinese and Italian scientists has joined efforts to provide a key to the understudied phaleratus group of blister beetles. During their research the scientists have also discovered a new species from the genus Hycleus, which they named after Marco Polo.

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