Dicranocnemus squamosus
| Dicranocnemus squamosus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Dicranocnemus |
| Species: | D. squamosus
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| Binomial name | |
| Dicranocnemus squamosus Burmeister, 1844
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Dicranocnemus squamosus is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in South Africa (Eastern Cape, Western Cape).[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 4–5.25 mm (0.157–0.207 in). Males are black, with the elytra testaceous red. The pronotum is clothed with a very dense, long, flavescent pubescence, and has a somewhat broad band of appressed squamose scales along the base. The scutellum is densely squamose and the elytra is bi-costulate and either completely covered with round, golden-yellow scales set close to each other or forming two bands of scales on the disk and above the outer margin, and the interrupted sutural one, the median patch of which is occasionally paler than the other scales. The pygidial part and the abdomen are densely scaly, with the scales a little lighter yellow than those on the upper side. The legs are piceous. Females are similar to males, but a little smaller, and the scales on the elytra are replaced by squamose flavescent hairs, and the elytra are darker brown.[3]
References
- ^ BioLib
- ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Dicranocnemus squamosus 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 13, 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 13, 2026. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.