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Telephone-pole beetle

The telephone-pole beetle is a beetle native to the eastern United States and the only living representative of the otherwise extinct family Micromalthidae. Larvae of the beetle live in decaying wood and can be pests to wooden structures, lending... Wikipedia
Scientific name: Micromalthus debilis
Higher classification: Micromalthus
Class: Insecta
Family: Micromalthidae; Barber, 1913
Phylum: Arthropoda