Stigmatoplia ornata
| Stigmatoplia ornata | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Stigmatoplia |
| Species: | S. ornata
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| Binomial name | |
| Stigmatoplia ornata (Burmeister, 1844)
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Stigmatoplia ornata 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 7–8 mm (0.28–0.31 in). Males are black, with the intermediate and posterior legs red. The pronotum has a median longitudinal band of flavescent scales, a discoidal one interrupted in the middle and an outer marginal one. The scutellum is densely scaly and the elytra have eight elongated patches of yellowish scales on each side. The propygidium, pygidium and abdomen are clothed with contiguous yellowish scales. The shape of the females is similar to that of the males, but the pronotum is clothed with very dense yellowish hairs. The scutellum is scaly, the scales being flavescent white, and the whole surface of the elytra is covered with contiguous yellow scales entirely surrounding the elongated patches which are disposed as in the male, but the scales of which are paler than those forming the background.[3]
References
- ^ BioLib
- ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Stigmatoplia ornata 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 17, 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 17, 2026. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.