Austroplatypus

Austroplatypus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Curculionidae
Subfamily:	Platypodinae
Genus:	Austroplatypus

Austroplatypus is a genus of weevils native to Australia that includes Austroplatypus incompertus, the first beetle to be recognized as a eusocial insect. Members of the genus live in eucalypt trees and their fungal galleries can persist for decades because the host tree is not being killed.^[1]^[2]

References[]

^ Science: The Australian beetle that behaves like a bee
^ Kent, D. S., and J. A. Simpson 1992. Eusociality in the beetle Austroplatypus incompertus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Naturwissenschaften 79:86-87.

This Curculionidae-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

[bee-1] Science: The Australian beetle that behaves like a bee

[kent-2] Kent, D. S., and J. A. Simpson 1992. Eusociality in the beetle Austroplatypus incompertus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Naturwissenschaften 79:86-87.

[1]

[2]