Schizonycha profuga

Schizonycha profuga
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Scarabaeiformia
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Genus:	Schizonycha
Species:	S. profuga
Binomial name
	Schizonycha profuga; Péringuey, 1904

Schizonycha profuga is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

Description

Adults reach a length of about 14–16 mm (0.55–0.63 in). The head, pronotum and legs are chestnut or rusty-brown, while the elytra is paler and sometimes testaceous. The antennae and palpi are rusty-red. The pronotum is covered with almost contiguous cicatricose punctures separated by scabrose intervals, except along the base and for a median space above the scutellum where these intervals are not scabrose, and the punctures are less cicatricose. The scutellum pluri-punctate on each side, the punctures more numerous in females than in males. The elytra have punctures that are divided by intervals narrower than their diameter, and somewhat raised in the discoidal part, the hair they bear is minute. The pygidium is covered with closely set foveolate punctures separated by intervals half the size of their diameter.

References

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↑ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Schizonycha (Schizonycha) profuga 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 April 17, 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 April 17, 2026. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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[:1-2] Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Schizonycha (Schizonycha) profuga 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 April 17, 2026.

[:2-3] 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 17, 2026. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.