Hemicamenta caffrina
| Hemicamenta caffrina | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Hemicamenta |
| Species: | H. caffrina
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| Binomial name | |
| Hemicamenta caffrina (Péringuey, 1904)
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Hemicamenta caffrina is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in South Africa (Eastern Cape).[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 7.5–10.5 mm. They are red, with the head slightly infuscate in males and black in females (the prothorax of which is also infuscate laterally, but occasionally totally piceous). Males are more elongated and less convex than females, and the clypeus is more deeply incised laterally and the two anterior angles are very sharp and project also more than in females.[3]
References
- ^ BioLib
- ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Hemicamenta caffrina 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.