Rufotrichia sororia
| Rufotrichia sororia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Rufotrichia |
| Species: | R. sororia |
| Binomial name | |
| Rufotrichia sororia (Moser, 1912) | |
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Rufotrichia sororia is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in Vietnam.[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 21 mm (0.83 in). They are very similar to Rufotrichia rufula, but somewhat darker in colour, and differs in the sculpture of the pygidium. The head and pronotum are blackish and the elytra brown with a violet sheen. The head is strongly punctate, with the clypeus somewhat wrinkled. Its margin is slightly upturned, and the anterior margin is emarginate in the middle. The antennae are yellowish-brown. The pronotum is shaped similarly to R. rufula, but not as densely punctate and the sculpture of the scutellum and elytra is also similar to that of R. rufula. While the pygidium in the latter species is quite densely covered with umbilical punctures, in R. sororia it is only very sparsely punctate.[3]
References
- ↑ Global Biodiversity Information Facility
- ↑ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Rufotrichia sororia 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 May 11, 2026.
- 1 2 Moser, J. (1912). "Neue Arten der Melolonthiden-Gattungen Holotrichia und Pentelia". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 56: 420–449. Retrieved May 11, 2026.
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