Biology:Garreta smaragdifer
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Short description: Species of beetle
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Garreta |
| Species: | G. smaragdifer
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| Binomial name | |
| Garreta smaragdifer (Walker, 1858)[1]
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Garreta smaragdifer is a species of dung beetle native to India and Sri Lanka.[2][3]
Description
This very broadly oval, convex species has an average length of about 17 to 18 mm. Body smooth, and shiny. Body color varies from dark blue tor greenish-blue. Head granulate and opaque whereas clypeus acutely notched in the middle. Pronotum and elytra very smooth and shiny. Pronotum sparsely punctured, whereas the front angles are minutely rugose and opaque. Elytra very finely striate and abdominal base is sharply carinate at the sides. Pygidium finely coriaceous and sub-opaque. In male, extremity of the front tibia is abruptly incurved and truncate.[4][5]
References
- ↑ Walker, Francis (1858). "Characters of some apparently undescribed Ceylon insects". Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Including Zoology, Botany and Geology. 3 2 (9): 208. doi:10.1080/00222935808697009. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18659109.
- ↑ Chandra, Kailash; Gupta, Devanshu (2014-06-01). "Studies on Tribe Gymnopleurini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) from Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh with A Checklist from India". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences 84 (2): 317–330. doi:10.1007/s40011-013-0229-z. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40011-013-0229-z. Retrieved 2021-07-19.
- ↑ Mittal, I.C. (2011). "Synoptic key to Indian species of genus Garreta Janssens (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) with a new species from Haryana (India)". Journal of Entomological Research 35 (3): 295–298. https://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:jer&volume=35&issue=3&article=021. Retrieved 2021-07-19.
- ↑ "Garreta smaragdifer Walker, 1858". https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/275773.
- ↑ Pokorný, Svatopluk; Zidek, Jiri (2016). "Review of the Gymnopleurini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). III. Asian species of Garreta Janssens". Insecta Mundi 0483. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1989&context=insectamundi. Retrieved 2021-07-18.
Wikidata ☰ Q14921131 entry
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