Empecamenta usambarae

Empecamenta usambarae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Scarabaeiformia
Family: Scarabaeidae
Genus: Empecamenta
Species:
E. usambarae
Binomial name
Empecamenta usambarae
Brenske, 1898

Empecamenta usambarae is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in Tanzania.

Description

Adults reach a length of about 12 mm (0.47 in). They are brown and shiny. The clypeus is very large, rounded laterally, slightly indented anteriorly, smooth up to the clypeus keel, then very densely and coarsely wrinkled-punctate without a frontal suture. The frons is even more coarsely punctured, with deep punctures bearing erect setae. The pronotum is evenly rounded on the sides, finely punctured, with some coarser punctures anteriorly, covered everywhere with thin, long, erect, brown hairs. The scutellum appears smooth but is extremely finely punctured. The elytra are densely and rather finely punctured. Coarser bristle-bearing punctures appear at the base. The pygidium is very finely punctured, with long, erect hairs.

References

  1. ↑ Global Biodiversity Information Facility
  2. ↑ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Empecamenta usambarae 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 May 26, 2026.
  3. ↑ Brenske, E. (1898). "Melolonthiden aus Afrika" (PDF). Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung. 59 (4): 333–394. Retrieved May 26, 2026. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.