Plectris aliena
| Plectris aliena | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Plectris |
| Species: | P. aliena |
| Binomial name | |
| Plectris aliena Chapin, 1934 | |
Plectris aliena is a species of scarab beetle in the family Scarabaeidae. It is has been recorded from Argentina, Brazil (Mato Grosso do Sul), Paraguay, the United States (North Carolina, South Carolina) and Australia (New South Wales).[1][2][3][4]
Description
[edit]Adults reach a length of about 10.8-13.5 mm. They are castaneous to yellowish brown above, while the underside and legs are paler. The clypeus is coarsely and densely punctured. The surface of the pronotum is a little more finely and much more sparsely punctured than the clypeus. The elytra have four indistinct costae and there are fine and not very densely placed punctures on the surface, with a scale-like hair in each puncture.[5]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Plectris aliena Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ↑ "Plectris aliena". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ↑ "Plectris aliena species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ↑ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Plectris aliena 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 February 19, 2026.
- ↑ Chapin, E. A. (1934). "An apparently new scarab beetle (Coleoptera) now established at Charleston, South Carolina" (PDF). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 47: 33–35. Retrieved February 19, 2026.
Further reading
[edit]- Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2006). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 3: Scarabaeoidea - Scirtoidea - Dascilloidea - Buprestoidea - Byrrhoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-30914-2.