Julodimorpha is a genus of beetle

Beetle

Coleoptera is an order of insects commonly called beetles. The word "coleoptera" is from the Greek , koleos, "sheath"; and , pteron, "wing", thus "sheathed wing". Coleoptera contains more species than any other order, constituting almost 25% of all known life-forms...

s in the family Buprestidae, containing the following species:

Species

• Julodimorpha bakewellii (White, 1859)
• Julodimorpha saundersii Thomson, 1878

Observations on mating behaviour

In 1983, entomologists Darryl Gwynne and David Rentz reported on male Julodimorpha saundersii (confused at that time with the closely related J. bakewelli) observed attempting to copulate with discarded brown stubbies (a type of beer bottles) studded with tubercules (bobbly bits). This work won them the 2011 Ig Nobel Prize

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in biology.