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| Hybocamenta inops | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Hybocamenta |
| Species: | H. inops |
| Binomial name | |
| Hybocamenta inops (Péringuey, 1904) | |
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Hybocamenta inops is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal).[2][3]
Description
[edit]Adults reach a length of about 6-6.5 mm. They are similar to Hybocamenta rufina and Hybocamenta simillima, but the anterior part of the in the male has no traces of a transverse keel, the punctures on both the clypeus and the head are broader and slightly deeper than in H. rufina, and the anterior part of the clypeus is not emarginate. The head is infuscate but has a reddish spot on the clypeus, the prothorax is rufescent but with an ill-defined, infuscate lateral patch, the scutellum is black and the elytra are livid brown.[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ BioLib
- ↑ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Hybocamenta inops 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 (2025-10-10 XR). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Catalogue of Life Foundation. Retrieved January 12, 2026.
- 1 2 Péringuey, L. (1904). "Descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa (Lucanidae and Scarabaeidae)" (PDF). Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 13 (1): 1–293. Retrieved January 12, 2026.
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