Oocamenta rufiventris
| Oocamenta rufiventris | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Oocamenta |
| Species: | O. rufiventris
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| Binomial name | |
| Oocamenta rufiventris (Burmeister, 1855)
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Oocamenta rufiventris is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in South Africa (Mpumalanga) and Zimbabwe.[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 5.5–7.25 mm. The head, prothorax and scutellum are black and very shining. The elytra is as black as the prothorax, or has a large basal reddish patch on each side, which often invades the whole surface. The abdomen is reddish and the pectus is piceous-red. The antennae are occasionally brownish in the male, but almost always flavescent in the female. The punctures of the whole head are moderately closely set and the prothorax is very faintly aciculate in the male, but finely punctate in the female (except in the median posterior part). The elytra have somewhat seriate rows of shallow punctures.[3]
References
- ^ BioLib
- ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Oocamenta (Oocamenta) rufiventris 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.