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''Siamoporus deharvengi'' is a species of aquatic
beetle Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...
in the family Dytiscidae, the only species in the genus ''Siamoporus''.Dytiscidae Species List
at Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog. Texas A&M University. Retrieved on 7 May 2012. It is only known from a cave in the Khon Kaen Province, Thailand, and like other cave-adapted beetles it has reduced pigment, and lacks eyes and functional wings. It is typically about long. ''Siamoporus'' is a member of
Hydroporini Hydroporini is a tribe of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae The Dytiscidae – based on the Greek ''dytikos'' (δυτικός), "able to dive" – are the predaceous diving beetles, a family of water beetles. They occu ...
and it is not easily separated from some of the other cave-living species in this
tribe The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English language, English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in p ...
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