Thabina

Thabina
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Scarabaeiformia
Family: Scarabaeidae
Subfamily: Melolonthinae
Tribe: Hopliini
Genus: Thabina
Péringuey, 1902
Species:
T. simplex
Binomial name
Thabina simplex
Péringuey, 1902

Thabina is a genus of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is monotypic, being represented by the single species, Thabina simplex, which is found in South Africa (Gauteng, North West).

Description

Adults reach a length of about 5 mm (0.20 in). They are black, with the head rugose and with some very short, sub-flavescent hairs in the frontal part. The pronotum is broadly and deeply punctured, each puncture bearing a long, somewhat fulvous bristle, and in the furrow as well as along the outer margin are some whitish, appressed squamose hairs. The elytra are somewhat bi-costulate on each side and have along the suture a broad band of partly erect squamose white hairs, and a discoidal one not quite as broad as the juxta-sutural, and sometimes reduced to a faint line, they are deeply but not closely punctured, each puncture bearing a long bristle. The pygidial part and abdomen are clothed with appressed greyish squamose hairs, which are not dense on the pygidium. The legs are bristly and pubescent.

References

  1. ↑ BioLib
  2. ↑ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Thabina simplex 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 March 17, 2026.
  3. ↑ Péringuey, L. (1902). "Descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa (Lucanidae and Scarabaeidae), Sub-families: Rutelinae, Hopliinae". Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 12: 561–920. Retrieved March 17, 2026. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.