Omocrates humilis
| Omocrates humilis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Omocrates |
| Species: | O. humilis
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| Binomial name | |
| Omocrates humilis Péringuey, 1902
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Omocrates humilis 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 4.5 mm (0.18 in). Males are similar to Omocrates depressus and Omocrates spatulipennis. They are black, with the elytra testaceous and the legs rufescent. The pronotum is covered from the base to three-fourths of the length with villose erect greyish hairs, and there is no basal band of appressed hairs. The elytra have a few inconspicuous, pallid, appressed hairs and the propygidium and pygidium are covered with contiguous, pale yellow, round scales, and the edge of the abdominal segments have more elongate, somewhat filiform ones of the same colour. Females are similar to males, but the pygidial part and abdomen are villose.[3]
References
- ^ BioLib
- ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Omocrates humilis 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 12, 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 (page 784). Retrieved March 12, 2026. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.