Omocrates mendax
| Omocrates mendax | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Omocrates |
| Species: | O. mendax
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| Binomial name | |
| Omocrates mendax Péringuey, 1902
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Omocrates mendax is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in South Africa (Northern Cape).[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 6–6.25 mm (0.236–0.246 in). They are black, with the elytra light testaceous and with a lateral and apical infuscate band beginning at about the middle of the side and reaching the suture. The head is scabrose and covered (like the pronotum) with a very dense, somewhat appressed light fulvous pubescence. The elytra are covered with appressed, sub-flavescent fine hairs, while the propygidium, pygidium and abdomen are covered with flavescent or yellow lanuginose scales (which are all of the same colour on the pygidium). The hind legs are densely hairy.[3]
References
- ^ BioLib
- ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Omocrates mendax 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 778). Retrieved March 12, 2026. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.