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A strange beetle was found on a campus in Jiangxi, which is still a national second-level protected animal! It was declared extinct

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Recently, in the campus of the First Middle School in Anyuan County, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, several students found a strange large beetle. And this beetle is actually a national second-level protected animal, and the number is extremely rare.

A strange beetle was found on a campus in Jiangxi, which is still a national second-level protected animal! It was declared extinct

The beetle has a golden-green back and a fuzzy belly. The first to find this beetle was high school student Huang Shijie and several classmates, when out of curiosity, they found that it was a rare animal through mobile phone query, and decided to hand it over to the relevant local departments.

A strange beetle was found on a campus in Jiangxi, which is still a national second-level protected animal! It was declared extinct

After identification by the relevant departments, this beetle belongs to the Yangcai arm golden turtle, its overall length is about 65 mm, the body width is about 35 mm, and it belongs to the national second-level protected animal. In 1982, China declared the extinction of the Yangcai Arm Golden Turtle.

A strange beetle was found on a campus in Jiangxi, which is still a national second-level protected animal! It was declared extinct

Ye Quanxin, director of the forest inspection station of the Forestry Bureau of Anyuan County, Ganzhou: "We initially suspected that it was a Yangcai Arm Golden Turtle, and after being identified and confirmed by experts from the Provincial Wildlife Protection Bureau, it was a female Yangcai Arm Golden Turtle, which is a national second-level protected animal." ”

A strange beetle was found on a campus in Jiangxi, which is still a national second-level protected animal! It was declared extinct

Anyuan County Forestry Bureau staff introduced that the Yangcai arm golden turtle belongs to the general family of Coleoptera golden turtles, living in evergreen broad-leaved forests, which have higher requirements for the living environment, generally living in nature reserves, rare in number, very precious value,

The Yangcai Arm Golden Turtle was first found in the Genus Anyuan and may be related to the local superior ecological environment.

A strange beetle was found on a campus in Jiangxi, which is still a national second-level protected animal! It was declared extinct

At present, after a simple "physical examination", it is confirmed that the "little guy" is not injured, and the staff releases it back to nature.

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