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Idgia

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Idgia
Idgia belli from India
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Prionoceridae
Genus: Idgia
Laporte, 1836

Idgia is a genus of beetles in the family Prionoceridae. They are distributed within the Old World tropics. These elongated beetles have soft elytra. Males have a comb on the inner edge of the distal tarsal segment of the foreleg.[1]

Species that have been described in the genus include:

References

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  1. ^ Champion, G.C. (1919). "The Malacoderm genera Prionocerus and Idgia and their sexual characters". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 9 (3): 325–372. doi:10.1080/00222931908673830.