Empecamenta nigra

Empecamenta nigra
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Scarabaeiformia
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Genus:	Empecamenta
Species:	E. nigra
Binomial name
	Empecamenta nigra; Arrow, 1902

Empecamenta nigra is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.^[1] It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zimbabwe.^[2]^[3]

Description

Adults reach a length of about 6.5–7 mm. They are black, shining and clothed with an erect, sub-flavescent pubescence. The tarsi is piceous and the head and clypeus are deeply and closely punctured, the latter is plainly incised laterally and narrowed thence to the anterior angles which are sharp but not projecting. The anterior, reflexed margin is slightly bi-sinuate and there is a transverse impressed line in the anterior part reaching from one end of the lateral incision to the other. The antennal club is flavescent and the prothorax is deeply punctate. The punctures are round, equi-distant, and separated by a smooth interval nearly equal in width to their own diameter. The elytra are very coarsely punctured with the intervals strongly coriaceous.^[3]

References

^ BioLib
^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Empecamenta nigra 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.

[1] BioLib

[:1-2] Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Empecamenta nigra 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.

[:2-3] 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.

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