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Squeak Beetle
Hygrobia hermanni
Hygrobia hermanni the screech beetle is a species of beetle in family Hygrobiidae. It is found in the Palearctic (South Europe, West Europa, North Africa ) and is found in stagnant and muddy waters.It able to make a strident grating noise hence the name screech beetle. The sound is produced when the sharp edge of the 7th abdominal tergite is rubbed against a subapical median file on the elytral undersurface.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 547330.