Brahmina

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Brahmina
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Superfamily: Scarabaeoidea
Family: Scarabaeidae
Subfamily: Melolonthinae
Tribe: Melolonthini
Genus: Brahmina
Blanchard, 1851[1850] [1]
Type species
Brahmina comata
Blanchard, 1851

Brahmina is a large Palearctic genus of scarab beetles in the tribe Melolonthini, containing over 90 species in three subgenera. [2]

Blanchard established the genus in a museum catalogue dated 1850 (but actually published in 1851) and separated the genus from related Rhizotrogus the basis of the claws being split at the tip. This character is also seen in Phytalus. Cryphaeobius, and Rhizocolax from which Brahmina may be separated in that the abdomen is only slightly or not recessed at the pygydium tip. The male antenna club is short and only slightly longer than in the female. The tarsal claw is split at the tip and the lower tooth is shorter and wider than the upper tooth. [3]

Species

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References

  1. Blanchard, Emile (1850). Milne-Edwards, M (ed.). Catalogue de la collection entomologique. Classe des insectes. 0rdre des coléoptères. Tome I. Paris: Gide et Baudry.
  2. BioLib - Brahmina
  3. Brenske, E. (1892). "Die Arten der Coleopteren-Gattung Brahmina Bl" (PDF). Berliner Entomolog. Zeitschrift. 37 (1): 79–124.