Hoplocnemis koikoina
| Hoplocnemis koikoina | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Hoplocnemis |
| Species: | H. koikoina
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| Binomial name | |
| Hoplocnemis koikoina Péringuey, 1902
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Hoplocnemis koikoina is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in South Africa (Northern Cape, Western Cape).[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 13–15 mm (0.51–0.59 in). They are similar to Hoplocnemis spectabilis in shape and build, but the elytra are occasionally rufescent brown, the hairs clothing the pronotum are denser, there is no cephalic tubercle in either sex, the propygidium and the abdominal segments are not scaly, but fringed with long fulvous hairs, and the apical inner process of the hind tibiae, which is as long as in H. spectabilis, is bluntly serrate on each side.[3]
References
- ^ BioLib
- ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Hoplocnemis koikoina 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 5, 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 5, 2026. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.