Gouna lineolata
| Gouna lineolata | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Gouna |
| Species: | G. lineolata
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| Binomial name | |
| Gouna lineolata (Burmeister, 1844)
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Gouna lineolata is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in South Africa (Western Cape).[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 6.5–7 mm (0.26–0.28 in). They are black. The head, pronotum and elytra are very closely punctate, with the punctures scabrose and partly hidden by a very short, sub-appressed, slightly flavescent pubescence. The pronotum has a narrow median line and a supra-lateral one of white scales, and the outer margin is moderately broadly banded with similar ones. The scutellum is densely squamose and the elytra have a discoidal band of white scales beginning close to the base but barely reaching the median part, and a juxta-sutural one slightly shorter than the discoidal, beginning at about the median part, and obliterated at a good distance from the apex. The propygidium, abdomen, and pectus are clothed with dense silvery-white scales and the pygidium is closely punctured, not scaly or hairy.[3]
References
- ^ BioLib
- ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Gouna lineolata 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 18, 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 18, 2026. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.