Spathoschiza

Spathoschiza
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: Spathoschiza
Arrow, 1902
Species:
S. debilis
Binomial name
Spathoschiza debilis
Arrow, 1902

Spathoschiza is a genus of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is monotypic, being represented by the single species, Spathoschiza debilis, which is found in Zimbabwe.

Description

Adults reach a length of about 9 mm (0.35 in). They are pale testaceous, with the head somewhat reddish and the antennal club flavescent. They are briefly but not densely pilose, with the hairs flavescent and somewhat longer on the under side. The pronotum is finely crenulate and the posterior angles are sharp. It is closely and somewhat deeply punctate, all the punctures bearing a short, setulose hair. The elytra are cylindrical, very little wider at the base than the base of the pronotum and covered with deep, equi-distant, setigerous punctures, separated by an interval about equal in width to their own diameter. The pygidium is deeply and somewhat closely punctate and fringed with long hairs. The underside is deeply and somewhat closely punctured all over.

References

  1. ↑ Global Biodiversity Information Facility
  2. ↑ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Spathoschiza debilis 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 5, 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 May 5, 2026. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.