Achloa echinaticeps
| Achloa echinaticeps | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Achloa |
| Species: | A. echinaticeps |
| Binomial name | |
| Achloa echinaticeps Péringuey, 1904 | |
Achloa echinaticeps is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in South Africa (Gauteng).[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 11–12 mm (0.43–0.47 in). They are very similar to Achloa helvola. The size, shape, and vestiture are the same and the sculpture is also similar, but the clypeal suture is only moderately arcuate from side to side, while the clypeus itself is a little narrower, slightly attenuated laterally towards the apex, strongly reflexed at the anterior part, the margin of which has a fringe of thick, stiff, spine-like erect cilia, alternately long and short, and is quite impunctate, the frontal part which is very strongly punctate has a double row of similarly stiff bristles along the suture, the basal part, however, is hairy.[3]
References
- ↑ Global Biodiversity Information Facility
- ↑ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Achloa echinaticeps at Catalogue of Life". World Scarabaeidae Database (version 2025-10-07). In O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D. R. Hernández Robles, C. A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, T. Pape, D. Hobern, S. Garnett, H. Little, R. E. DeWalt, J. Miller, T. Orrell, & R. Aalbu, Catalogue of Life (2026-01-16). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Catalogue of Life Foundation. Retrieved April 15, 2026.
- 1 2 Péringuey, L. (1904). "Descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa (Lucanidae and Scarabaeidae)" (PDF). Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 13 (1): 1–293. Retrieved April 15, 2026.
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