Allogymnopleurus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Scarabaeiformia
Superfamilia: Scarabaeoidea

Familia:Scarabaeidae
Subfamilia: Scarabaeinae
Tribus: Gymnopleurini
Genus: Allogymnopleurus
Species (20): A. aeneus – A. alluaudi – A. anthracinus – A. chloris – A. consocius – A. histrio – A. indigaceus – A. infranitens – A. jeanneli – A. maculosus – A. olivieri – A. sagnai – A. sericeicollis – A. signaticollis – A. spilotus – A. splendidus – A. thalassinus – A. umbrinus – A. youngai – A. zavattarii
Name

Allogymnopleurus Janssens, 1940
References
Primary references

Janssens 1940: Mém. Mus. Hist. nat. Belg., (2) 16, 33.

Additional references

Pokorný, S.; Zídek, J. 2009: Review of the Gymnopleurini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) I. Introduction and the genus Allogymnopleurus. Folia Heyrovskyana (A) 17: Reference page.

Links

Schoolmeesters, P. 2017. Scarabs: World Scarabaeidae Database (version Jul 2016). In: Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds. 2017. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 30th January 2017. Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/col. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858. Reference page. [accessed on March 1, 2017]

Allogymnopleurus is a genus of scarab beetles in the tribe Gymnopleurini.[2] It includes 20 species; 17 are restricted to the Afrotropics, one is Afrotropical/Palearctic, and two Oriental.[3]
Characters

These include:[3]

A suture where the thorax joins the abdomen which is clearly visible (from above) at the edge of the elytra
A single terminal spur on each mesotibia
The anterior edge of the clypeus is quadridentate or sexdentate (four or six teeth on the front edge of the head)
Length ranges from 8.1 to 18.2 mm

References

Janssens, André (1940). "Monographie des Gymnopleurides (Coleoptera Lamellicornia)". Mémoires du Musée royal d'histoire naturelle de Belgique. 2 (in French). 18: 3–73.
"Allogymnopleurus - Wikispecies". species.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
Davis, Adrian L.V.; Frolov, Andrey V.; Scholtz, Clarke H. (2008). The African dung beetle genera (1st ed.). Pretoria: Protea Book House. pp. 124–125. ISBN 9781869192440.