Empecamenta matabelena
| Empecamenta matabelena | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Empecamenta |
| Species: | E. matabelena
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| Binomial name | |
| Empecamenta matabelena (Péringuey, 1904)
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Empecamenta matabelena is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in Zimbabwe.[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 8.5–9 mm. They are black, and covered with an erect flavescent pubescence. They are similar to Empecamenta nigra, but more robust, and the shape of the clypeus is different, being incised laterally and narrowed towards the anterior part as in E. nigra, but the apical angles are very broadly rounded, and the median part deeply and broadly notched and very plainly reflexed in both sexes, the transverse clypeal keel is quite distinct, and the clypeal suture is indicated in the male by a fringe of hairs, but is visible in the female, the pubescence is denser and longer, especially on the head and prothorax. The elytra are deeply punctured, but not coriaceous and the antennal club of the male is slightly shorter than the pedicel, and therefore not as long as in E. nigra.[3]
References
- ^ BioLib
- ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Empecamenta matabelena 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 12, 2026.
- ^ a b 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 12, 2026. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.