Doxocalia tenuipes

Doxocalia tenuipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Scarabaeiformia
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Genus:	Doxocalia
Species:	D. tenuipes
Binomial name
Doxocalia tenuipes Moser, 1917

Doxocalia tenuipes is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. ^[1] It is found in Angola. ^{[2] [3]}

Description

Adults reach a length of about 10 mm. They are dull and black above with rust-colored spots. The underside is blackish-brown, while the middle of the thorax and the legs are brown. The head is black and the frons is quite widely covered with short-bristled punctures. The antennae are brown. The pronotum is black, and indistinctly brown-spotted at the sides. The punctures are irregularly spaced and minutely punctured, setate, and a central spot is puncture-free. The scutellum is punctured except for the middle and tip. The elytra are black and brown-spotted. They have regular rows of punctures and the weakly convex intervals are only very sparsely punctured. All punctures have short setae. ^[3]

References

1. BioLib
2. Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Doxocalia tenuipes 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 January 29, 2026.
3. Moser, J. (1917). "Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Melolonthiden (Col.) VI" (PDF). Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung. 78: 54–97. Retrieved January 29, 2026. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .