Ablaberoides crassus
| Ablaberoides crassus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Ablaberoides |
| Species: | A. crassus
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| Binomial name | |
| Ablaberoides crassus (Fåhraeus, 1857)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
Ablaberoides crassus is a species of beetles first discovered by Olof Immanuel von Fåhraeus in 1857.[2] It is found in Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.[3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 6-7.25 mm. They are very dark bronze with a moderate sheen or with the elytra bronze-red and a bright sheen, completely reddish on the upper side, or lastly with a fuscous, longitudinal patch on each elytron. The pedicel of the antennae is rufescent and the club is black or darkly infuscate.[4]
References
- ^ Ablaberoides crassus (Fahraeus, 1857) in GBIF Secretariat (2019). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset doi:10.15468/39omei accessed via https://www.gbif.org/species/1055341 on 2019-10-14.
- ^ Péringuey, Louis (1892) Third contribution to the South-African Coleopterous Fauna, Transactions of the South African philosophical Society. Cape Town 6(2):1-94 (25-40)
- ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Ablaberoides ditissimus 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 (2025-10-10 XR). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Catalogue of Life Foundation. Retrieved January 9, 2026.
- ^ 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 January 9, 2026. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.