Leucopholis stainesi
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| Leucopholis stainesi | |
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| File:Leucopholis stainesi.jpg | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Leucopholis |
| Species: | L. stainesi
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| Binomial name | |
| Leucopholis stainesi Calcetas, 2023
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Leucopholis stainesi is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in the Philippines (Mindanao).
Description
[edit | edit source]Adults reach a length of about 35 mm. The dorsum is dichromatic and the head, pronotum, scutellum, elytra and legs are blackish, with a brownish tinge on the posterior margin of the elytra. The body covered with yellowish white scales. The venter is dichromatic blackish with little shade of brown.
Etymology
[edit | edit source]The species is named is named in honour of Dr Charles Staines, world expert on hispines at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, Maryland, USA.[1]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Part of this text is from “Three new species of the genus Leucopholis Dejean, 1833 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Melolonthinae, Leucopholini) from the Philippines and designation of a neotype for L. semperi Brenske, 1896” by Calcetas O.A.. This article is licensed under the CC BY 4.0 license
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