Stenoserica delagoana
| Stenoserica delagoana | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Stenoserica |
| Species: | S. delagoana
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| Binomial name | |
| Stenoserica delagoana Péringuey, 1904
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Stenoserica delagoana is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in Mozambique.[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 7-7.5 mm. They are very pale testaceous and slightly iridescent. The antennae are slightly flavescent in males, but reddish in females. The prothorax is not distinctly punctulate, while the scutellum is faintly punctulate. The elytra are finely but not deeply punctato-striate with the intervals nearly plane and faintly punctulate, and having along the suture and each alternate interval a series of very remote but quite conspicuous bristle-like hairs.[3]
References
- ^ BioLib
- ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Stenoserica delagoana 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 7, 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 7, 2026. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.