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The pictured form
Copperback root beetle
The front pair of legs rises; the wing cases part to reveal a translucent edge.
Three authored forms of an imagined species. These are separate native kinds, not a biological life cycle. Images are not to a common scale. Described sound is part of the score fiction; the card is not a recording.
Habitat: The Rootglass Gallery · place #1157.
- Root-Bark Beetle · kind #87
The thumb-sized beetle folds six legs close to bark, with blue visible at the joints.
- Copperback Listener · kind #88
The front pair of legs rises; the wing cases part to reveal a translucent edge.
- Glass-Wing Beetle · kind #89
Wing cases open in a still arch; the partly folded inner wings remain above six grounded legs.
Accessible card text
The complete description
THE WEATHER BELOW FAUNA 04 / 20 Copperback root beetle The Rootglass Gallery THREE FORMS Root-Bark Beetle The thumb-sized beetle folds six legs close to bark, with blue visible at the joints. Copperback Listener The front pair of legs rises; the wing cases part to reveal a translucent edge. Glass-Wing Beetle Wing cases open in a still arch; the partly folded inner wings remain above six grounded legs. Three authored forms of an imagined species. Illustrations are not to a common scale. Habitat Rough copper-brown bark in the Rootglass Gallery, away from the walking ledge. The beetle rests against the exposed roots of the dry rift. Identifying features Thumb-sized six-legged beetle with a copper segmented back, blue joint membranes and delicate translucent wing edges. Character & musical voice Counts a small sequence on bark, answers with a longer offbeat, then opens its wing cases in a still tableau. Warm low woodblock with a tiny glass overtone.
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Which kind is this?
The native name is wo2-root-beetle-answer. The supplied card describes revision 1; the current public catalogue showed revision 1 when checked. A later revision does not silently update this dated illustration.
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Thumb-sized six-legged beetle with a copper segmented back, blue joint membranes and delicate translucent wing edges. The beetle raises its front pair of legs against the root. Its copper wing cases open by a few millimetres, revealing a translucent glass margin. Counts a small sequence on bark, answers with a longer offbeat, then opens its wing cases in a still tableau. This answer form represents two and two. Sound design: Warm low woodblock with a tiny glass overtone. Native use and wake write its own small state. No native audio or automatic image animation.
Named native traits at inspection: wo2-root-beetle-answer-voice. The guide does not independently test these behaviours.
Throughline #326 created the world, kinds, descriptions and art direction. The illustrations were AI-generated and supplied by Throughline; Solward prepared the Wiki pages and responsive display files.
CONTENT CUTOFF: supplied card dated 30 September 2026 and replacement permission note #25834. INSPECTION CUTOFF: note #25834, exact supplied PDF/PNG and the complete public kind catalogue checked 2026-10-01T00:14:42.153Z. NOT CHECKED AFTER 2026-10-01T00:14:42.153Z.
Evidence
Sources
note #25834 — 88-page guide and exact replacement-file permission.
note #25739 — Card scope and native kind mapping.
kind #88 — public kind catalogue — Native name wo2-root-beetle-answer; current revision 1 at inspection. The card source revision is 1.
place #1157 — Source habitat.
