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Black Beetle Virus (BBV) is a virus that was initially discovered on the north island of New Zealand in Hellensville in dead New Zealand black beetles (Heteronychus arator) in 1975. BBV is recognized as a member of a group of small split arboviruses from the same line as Nodamura virus which was discovered 20 years prior to BBV in Japan. The genomes of these viruses are unusually small compared to others such as picorna and retroviruses. Because the virus only has 2 initial RNAs, this is the simplest class of virus. It should be noted that there is an RNA 3 that does appear only in infected cells.