Meloe brevicollis
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Meloe brevicollis is a European oil beetle. It is also known as the short-necked oil beetle.
It had been thought that the beetle had been extinct in the UK since the 1940s, due to intensive farming. However, in 2007 a small population was discovered in south of Devon.[1]
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