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What characteristics of coleopteras can be used to classify them?

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1. Chewing mouthparts (sometimes located at the tip of a beak or snout)

2. Front wings (elytra) are hard and serve as covers for the hind wings; meet in a line down the middle of the back.

3. Hind wings are large, membranous, folded beneath the elytra.

4. Tarsi are 2- to 5-segmented.

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