Empecamenta mashona
| Empecamenta mashona | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Empecamenta |
| Species: | E. mashona |
| Binomial name | |
| Empecamenta mashona (Péringuey, 1904) | |
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Empecamenta mashona is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in Zimbabwe.[2][3]
Description
[edit]Adults reach a length of about 8-8.5 mm. They are testaceous, with the head and prothorax brick-red, moderately shining, and clothed all over with erect, somewhat densely set, long, flavescent hairs. The head and the posterior half of the clypeus are very coarsely punctate, and the anterior part is somewhat excavate. The prothorax is covered with somewhat irregular, deep, moderately closely set punctures and the scutellum is punctate in the centre. The elytra are deeply punctate and the pygidium, abdominal segments, and pectus are pubescent.[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ BioLib
- ↑ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Empecamenta mashona 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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