Denticnema morbillosa
| Denticnema morbillosa | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Denticnema |
| Species: | D. morbillosa
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| Binomial name | |
| Denticnema morbillosa (Burmeister, 1844)
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Denticnema morbillosa is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in Namibia and South Africa (Western Cape, Northern Cape).[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 8–10 mm (0.31–0.39 in). The head and pronotum are black, clothed with dense, long black hairs and with white scales along the margin of the base only. The elytra are red, covered with contiguous, round, white scales, and with one sutural, three discoidal and one supra-marginal row of remote, scar-like spots on each side, each bearing a stiff, stout seta. The legs are red. In females, the elytra are flavescent, covered with yellowish scales and the series of setiferous spots is less conspicuous. The pygidium is not scaly in either sex.[3]
References
- ^ BioLib
- ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Denticnema morbillosa 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 March 5, 2026.
- ^ a b Péringuey, L. (1902). "Descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa (Lucanidae and Scarabaeidae), Sub-families: Rutelinae, Hopliinae". Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 12: 561–920. Retrieved March 5, 2026. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.