Schizonycha damarina
| Schizonycha damarina | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Schizonycha |
| Species: | S. damarina |
| Binomial name | |
| Schizonycha damarina Péringuey, 1908 | |
Schizonycha damarina is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in Namibia.[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 16.5 mm (0.65 in). The head and pronotum are brick-red and the elytra are pale straw colour. The pygidium and abdomen are fuscous. The central part of the pronotum is covered with nearly contiguous variolose punctures, and the sides and anterior part with equally closely asperous ones, from the centre of the disk to the base runs a longitudinal smooth line, and the supra-basal fold is not quite smooth. The scutellum is closely punctate laterally and the elytra are covered with simple punctures separated by an interval equal to their own diameter. The pygidium is finely but not closely punctate.[3]
References
- ↑ Global Biodiversity Information Facility
- ↑ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Schizonycha (Schizonycha) damarina 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 27, 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 27, 2026.
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