Gymnoloma perplexa
| Gymnoloma perplexa | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Gymnoloma |
| Species: | G. perplexa
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| Binomial name | |
| Gymnoloma perplexa Péringuey, 1902
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Gymnoloma perplexa is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in South Africa (Cape).[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 7 mm (0.28 in). They are black, with the elytra chocolate-brown. The pronotum is sprinkled with sub-flavescent, numerous scales scattered on the discoidal part, but not forming bands, and denser along the outer and the basal margins. The scutellum is very little scaly and the elytra have on each side a sutural and two discoidal narrow bands of minute sub-flavescent scales as well as a marginal one, often, however, partly obliterated or merging near the shoulder into the outer discoidal one. The pygidial part and underside are densely scaly, the scales not quite contiguous.[3]
References
- ^ BioLib
- ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Gymnoloma perplexa 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 17, 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 17, 2026. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.