Pheropsophus jessoensis
| Pheropsophus jessoensis | |
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| Pheropsophus jessoensis collected by Y.Nagai in 1992 and identified by K.Ikeuchi.[1] | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Carabidae |
| Genus: | Pheropsophus |
| Species: | P. jessoensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Pheropsophus jessoensis (A.Morawitz, 1862)
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Pheropsophus kimaniae, colloquially known as the Asian bombardier beetle[2] (miidera beetle in Japan) is a species of ground beetle from Japan, North and South Korea, and the province of Yunnan, China.
References
[edit]- ^ "Pheropsophus jessoensis Morawitz,1862". Gallery of specimens, Pheropsophus jessoensis. Osaka Prefecture University. Retrieved 2014-02-28.
- ^ Langin, Katie (2018-02-06). "Watch a bombardier beetle escape from a toad's stomach". Science. Retrieved 2019-05-19.