Tlaocera

Tlaocera
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Scarabaeiformia
Family: Scarabaeidae
Subfamily: Melolonthinae
Tribe: Tanyproctini
Genus: Tlaocera
Péringuey, 1904
Species:
T. saga
Binomial name
Tlaocera saga
Péringuey, 1904

Tlaocera is a genus of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is monotypic, being represented by the single species, Tlaocera saga, which is found in South Africa (Western Cape).

Description

Adults reach a length of about 12.5 mm (0.49 in). They are black, with the elytra and antennae chestnut-brown, and the frontal part, pronotum, scutellum, pectus, and femora clothed with long, dense fulvous hairs. The clypeus has a double row of deep punctures on the anterior part, but is smooth along the suture, and the frontal part is deeply punctured, each puncture bearing a long hair. The pronotum is somewhat deeply impressed in the anterior part, which is also a little more closely punctured than the posterior part where the punctures are more scattered but equally deep. The elytra are somewhat depressed in the dorsal part, and have on each side, in addition to the plain juxta-sutural stria, two dorsal geminate somewhat indistinct ones, they are punctulate and have faint longitudinal rows of wider but shallow punctures. The pygidium is deeply but not closely punctate in the basal part, nearly impunctate in the apical.

References

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  2. ↑ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Tlaocera saga 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 April 9, 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 April 9, 2026. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.