Dichecephala ovata
| Dichecephala ovata | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Dichecephala |
| Species: | D. ovata |
| Binomial name | |
| Dichecephala ovata (Fåhraeus, 1857) | |
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Dichecephala ovata is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in South Africa (Free State, Mpumalanga, North West, Limpopo, KwaZulu-Natal) and Zimbabwe.[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 7–7.5 mm (0.28–0.30 in). They are chestnut or reddish-brown, with a strong metallic tinge. The club of the antennae is flavescent and the head and pronotum are covered with fine, although deep punctures, separated by a smooth interval, nearly equal in width to their own diameter. The scutellum is finely but not densely punctate. The elytra are covered with deep, round, somewhat closely-set punctures, and have on each elytron two dorsal costules, edged on either side by a regular row of punctures. The underside is coarsely punctate.[3]
References
- ↑ BioLib
- ↑ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Dichecephala ovata 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 March 25, 2026.
- 1 2 Péringuey, L. (1908). "Descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. Additions and corrections". Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 13: 547–752. Retrieved March 25, 2026.
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