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It’s a newly discovered Australian beetle, which was initially mistaken for bird poo, says BBC News. Queensland entomologist James Tweed spotted the fluffy specimen, dubbed the “punk beetle” for its shaggy white locks, on a leaf during a camping trip. At first he thought it was a splodge of guano, but the Australian National Insect Collection has since confirmed that the longhorn beetle is an entirely new genus: Excastra albopilosa, meaning “from the camp” and “white and hairy”.
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