Schizonycha spuria
| Schizonycha spuria | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Schizonycha |
| Species: | S. spuria |
| Binomial name | |
| Schizonycha spuria Péringuey, 1904 | |
Schizonycha spuria is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in South Africa (Mpumalanga, Gauteng, North West).[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 12–13 mm (0.47–0.51 in). They are black and moderately shining. The palpi, antennae and legs are piceous. The pronotum has the outer margin plainly serrate and often fringed with dense fulvous hairs. The surface is covered with irregular, transverse, slightly raised smooth folds in the intervals of which are some slightly scabrose fovae bearing each an appressed, very distinct squamose greyish hair. The scutellum is raised in the centre, and the lateral punctures are squamose. The elytra are covered with deep punctures bearing each a conspicuous squamose greyish hair, from the base to past the median part the intervals are raised, and coriaceous. The pygidium is impunctate.[3]
References
- ↑ Global Biodiversity Information Facility
- ↑ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Schizonycha (Schizonycha) spuria 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 29, 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 29, 2026.
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