Garreta

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Garreta
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Garreta nitens
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Scarabaeiformia
Family: Scarabaeidae
Subfamily: Scarabaeinae
Tribe: Gymnopleurini
Genus: Garreta
Janssens, 1940 [1]

Garreta is a genus of dung beetles (subfamily Scarabaeinae) in the scarab beetle family (Scarabaeidae). [2] [3] [4] There are more than 20 described species; [5] most are African and some are from Asia. [6] They are generally found in fairly moist habitats (forest, moist savanna and upland grassland). [6]

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All species are ball-rolling dung beetles.

Species

References

  1. ↑ Janssens, André (1940). "Monographie des Gymnopleurides (Coleoptera Lamellicornia)". Mémoires du Musée royal d'histoire naturelle de Belgique. 2 (in French). 18: 3–73.
  2. ↑ "Integrated Taxonomic Information System - Search Results" . Retrieved 2009-03-12.
  3. ↑ "Garreta - Nomen.at - animals and plants".
  4. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-03-27. Retrieved 2011-03-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ↑ "Garreta - Wikispecies". species.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
  6. 1 2 Scholtz, Clarke H.; Davis, Adrian L. V.; Kryger, Ute (2009). Evolutionary biology and conservation of dung beetles. Sofia-Moscow: Pensoft Pub. ISBN   978-954-642-517-1.


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