Suntemnonycha

Suntemnonycha
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: Suntemnonycha
Péringuey, 1904
Species:
S. collusor
Binomial name
Suntemnonycha collusor
Péringuey, 1904

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

Description

Adults reach a length of about 13.5 mm (0.53 in). They are ferruginous, a little lighter on the elytra. The antennal club of the males is light chestnut-brown. The pronotum and elytra have the same shape as in Schizonycha species. The former is densely pubescent along the frontal and outer margins, and also along the median part of the base above the scutellum. The punctures are not scrobiculate laterally, and are divided from each other on the disk by a space equal to their own diameter, but they are more closely set along the anterior margin. The scutellum is hairy, and the punctures on the elytra are deep with the smooth, slightly raised intervals, narrower in the anterior than in the posterior part. The pygidium is closely punctate, with the punctures squamigerous.

References

  1. ↑ Global Biodiversity Information Facility
  2. ↑ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Suntemnonycha collusor 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.