Adoretus bicaudatus
| Adoretus bicaudatus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Adoretus |
| Species: | A. bicaudatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Adoretus bicaudatus Arrow, 1917
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Adoretus bicaudatus, is a species of shining leaf chafer found in India and Sri Lanka.[1][2][3][4]
Description
Adults are about 12.66 mm long. The body is flat, elongated, and parallel sided. The dorsum is brown or testaceous and completely covered with decumbent white setae. The setae form patches in three longitudinal rows on elytra. The head is elongated and transverse. The surface has rough punctures that become coarser toward the rear. The clypeus is short and broad while the antennae is clubbed and consists of nine segments. The pronotum is short and transverse. The scutellum is obtusely triangular and coarsely punctured. The elytra have a rough, leathery surface with raised humps. The pygidium is also rough whereas mesosternum is laterally rugose.[5]
Adults have been recorded from Lagerstroemia species.[6]
References
- ^ "On a collection of Scarabaeid beetles (Coleoptera) from Pachmarhi biosphere reserve, Madhya Pradesh" (PDF). Rec. zool. Surv. India: 102 (Part 3-4) : 43-46, 2004. Retrieved 2021-07-09.
- ^ "Scarabaeid beetles of Bandhavgarh National Park, Madhya Pradesh" (PDF). Zoos' print journal, 2005. Retrieved 2021-07-09.
- ^ "Inventory of scarabaeid beetles (Coleoptera) from Madhya Pradesh, India" (PDF). Zoo's Print Journal, 2000. Retrieved 2021-07-09.
- ^ Arrow, Gilbert J. (1914-06-01). "LXIX.—On the Ceylonese species of Ruteline Coleoptera belonging to the genus Adoretus". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. pp. 587–594. doi:10.1080/00222931408693529. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
- ^ "Taxonomic studies on Adoretus Dejean, 1833 (Rutelinae: Scarabaeidae) of Buxa Tiger Reserve (a forest under biodiversity hotspot zone), Dooars, West Bengal, India" (PDF). Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies 2016; 4(6): 01-11. Retrieved 2021-07-09.
- ^ "Insect fauna of Peechi-vazhani wild life sanctuary, Kerala, India" (PDF). Zoos' Print Journal, 2005. Retrieved 2021-07-09.