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bombardier beetlenounA ground beetle that discharges a puff of irritant vapour from its anus with an audible pop when alarmed.- Several species in the family Carabidae, in particular the European Brachinus crepitans.
One contributor to the conference gave a talk on ‘The efficiency of the explosive discharge of the bombardier beetle, with possible biomimetic applications’....- The Holotype of the bombardier beetle, Brachinus aabaaba, which I named and described in 1970, is housed in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard.
- The tiny bombardier beetle could not possibly have evolved.
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