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This is a great article about this species…
”Drilus flavescens” is one of the most extreme cases of sexual dimorphism in insects. The females of this beetle look like a caterpillar – so called larviform females – completely lacking wings and other adult characters.
Adult males are approximately 10 millimetres long. They have long comb-shaped antennas, probably utilized for detecting pheromones of females. Head and pronotum are black, while elytra are reddish, quite soft and covered of fine upstanding hairs.
Read here: https://www.jungledragon.com/specie/23502/drilus_flavescens.html