Cleptocaccobius inermis

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Cleptocaccobius inermis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Suborder:
Polyphaga
Superfamily:
Cucujoidea
Family:
Scarabaeidae
Subfamily:
Scarabaeinae
Genus:
Cleptocaccobius
Species:
C. inermis
Binomial name
Cleptocaccobius inermis
(Arrow, 1931)
Synonyms
  • Caccobius inermisArrow, 1931

Cleptocaccobius inermis, is a species of dung beetle found in India and Sri Lanka. [1] [2] [3]

Description

This minute, broadly oval, compact species has an average length of about 3 mm. Body black and shiny. Legs and antennae except blackish club are orange-red in color. Upper surface consists with a thin fine pale setae. Head sparingly punctured with feeble and bluntly bilobed clypeus. Pronotum moderately punctured with blunt front angles. Elytra finely striate and sparingly punctured. Pygidium consists with sparse and very shallow pits. Male has a head without a carina. But in female, clypeus and forehead are separated by a curved carina. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ "INSECTA: COLEOPTERA: SCARABAEIDAE: SCARABAEINAE DUNG BEETLES". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2021-07-19.
  2. ↑ "Taxonomy browser (Cleptocaccobius inermis)". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2021-07-19.
  3. ↑ Khadakkar, Suvarna S.; Tiple, Ashish D.; Khurad, Arun M. "Scarab Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Scarabaeidae) of Vidarbha, India, with Notes on Distribution". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences. p. 1239. Retrieved 2021-07-19.
  4. ↑ "Cleptocaccobius inermis (Arrow, 1931)". India Biodiversity Portal. Retrieved 2021-07-19.
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