Schizonycha saginata
| Schizonycha saginata | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Schizonycha |
| Species: | S. saginata |
| Binomial name | |
| Schizonycha saginata Péringuey, 1904 | |
Schizonycha saginata is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in South Africa (Northern Cape).[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 13 mm (0.51 in). They are black, with the legs piceous, the tarsi brown and the antennae and palpi ferruginous. The surface of the whole head is covered with coarse rugose punctures. The pronotum is fringed with long, closely set fulvous setae and scabrose except for a somewhat faint smooth median longitudinal band. The scutellum has only one puncture on each side of the apical part. The elytra are fringed with long, somewhat scattered fulvous hairs from the humeral angle to about one-third of the length, and then with a thick band of shorter ones. They are covered with closely set punctures enclosing a minute granule and bearing a short, decumbent squamose and somewhat long greyish-white hair. The pygidium has somewhat deep, round, scattered punctures.[3]
References
- ↑ Global Biodiversity Information Facility
- ↑ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Schizonycha (Schizonycha) saginata 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 16, 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 16, 2026.
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