Beriqua

Beriqua
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Scarabaeiformia
Family: Scarabaeidae
Subfamily: Melolonthinae
Tribe: Melolonthini
Genus: Beriqua
Péringuey, 1904
Species:
B. modesta
Binomial name
Beriqua modesta
Péringuey, 1904

Beriqua is a genus of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is monotypic, being represented by the single species, Beriqua modesta, which is found in South Africa (Northern Cape).

Description

Adults reach a length of about 13 mm (0.51 in). They are chestnut-red and moderately shining, with head and pronotum clothed with long, light fulvous hairs, not sufficiently dense, however, to hide the teguments. The clypeus is glabrous and deeply but sparingly punctured in the anterior part and impunctate in the centre. The pronotum is covered all over with equi-distant, deep, round punctures, and has a smooth raised median line in the posterior part of the disk. The elytra are without any costule or stria, not even a juxta-sutural one, and covered with deep, round punctures, each bearing a minute greyish hair.

References

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  2. ↑ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Beriqua modesta 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 April 16, 2026.
  3. 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 April 16, 2026. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.