Allogymnopleurus
Appearance
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Allogymnopleurus maculosus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Scarabaeidae |
Subfamily: | Scarabaeinae |
Tribe: | Gymnopleurini |
Genus: | Allogymnopleurus Janssens, 1940[1] |
Allogymnopleurus is a genus of scarab beetles in the tribe Gymnopleurini.[2] It includes 20 species; 17 are restricted to the Afrotropics, one is Afrotropical/Palearctic, and two Oriental.[3]
Characters
[edit]These include:[3]
- A suture where the thorax joins the abdomen which is clearly visible (from above) at the edge of the elytra
- A single terminal spur on each mesotibia
- The anterior edge of the clypeus is quadridentate or sexdentate (four or six teeth on the front edge of the head)
- Length ranges from 8.1 to 18.2 mm
Gallery
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Allogymnopleurus thalassinus on zebra dung
References
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Wikispecies has information related to Allogymnopleurus.
- ^ Janssens, André (1940). "Monographie des Gymnopleurides (Coleoptera Lamellicornia)". Mémoires du Musée royal d'histoire naturelle de Belgique. 2 (in French). 18: 3–73.
- ^ "Allogymnopleurus - Wikispecies". species.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
- ^ a b Davis, Adrian L.V.; Frolov, Andrey V.; Scholtz, Clarke H. (2008). The African dung beetle genera (1st ed.). Pretoria: Protea Book House. pp. 124–125. ISBN 9781869192440.