Gymnoloma spuria
| Gymnoloma spuria | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Gymnoloma |
| Species: | G. spuria
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| Binomial name | |
| Gymnoloma spuria Péringuey, 1902
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Gymnoloma spuria 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 6–7 mm (0.24–0.28 in). They are black, with the elytra chestnut-brown. The pronotum has faint traces of scattered whitish scales and the elytra have a juxta-sutural band of white elongate scales beginning at about the median part and reaching to the apex, and a discoidal one reaching from the base to about the median part. The propygidium and pygidium are covered with elongate, not very closely set white scales, and the abdominal segments are edged with elongate scales.[3]
References
- ^ BioLib
- ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Gymnoloma spuria 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.