Garreta is a genus of dung beetles (subfamily Scarabaeinae) in the scarab beetle family (Scarabaeidae).[2][3][4] There are more than 20 described species;[5] most are African and some are from Asia.[6] They are generally found in fairly moist habitats (forest, moist savanna and upland grassland).[6]
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| Garreta nitens | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Subfamily: | Scarabaeinae |
| Tribe: | Gymnopleurini |
| Genus: | Garreta Janssens, 1940[1] |
All species are ball-rolling dung beetles.
Species
edit- Garreta australugens Davis & Deschodt, 2018
- Garreta azureus (Fabricius, 1801)
- Garreta basilewskyi (Balthasar, 1964)
- Garreta bechynei Pokorny & Zidek, 2018
- Garreta caffer (Fahraeus, 1857)
- Garreta crenulatus (Kolbe, 1895)
- Garreta dejeani (Castelnau, 1840)
- Garreta diffinis (Waterhouse, 1890)
- Garreta fastiditus (Harold, 1867)
- Garreta gilleti (Garreta, 1914)
- Garreta laetus (Hope, 1842)
- Garreta lugens (Fairmaire, 1891)
- Garreta malleolus (Kolbe, 1895)
- Garreta matabelensis (Janssens, 1938)
- Garreta mombelgi (Boucomont, 1929)
- Garreta morosus (Fairmaire, 1886)
- Garreta mundus (Wiedemann, 1819)
- Garreta namalugens Davis & Deschodt, 2018
- Garreta nitens (Olivier, 1789)
- Garreta nyassicus (Kolbe, 1897)
- Garreta opacus (Redtenbacher, 1848)
- Garreta ruficornis (Motschulsky, 1854)
- Garreta rutilans (Castelnau, 1840)
- Garreta smaragdifer (Walker, 1858)
- Garreta sumptuosus (Castelnau, 1840)
- Garreta sylvestris Mittal, 2011
- Garreta unicolor (Fahraeus, 1857)
- Garreta wahlbergi (Fahraeus, 1857)
Gallery
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Garreta unicolor rolling a ball of rhinoceros dung in Ithala Game Reserve -
Garreta nitens
References
edit- ^ Janssens, André (1940). "Monographie des Gymnopleurides (Coleoptera Lamellicornia)". Mémoires du Musée royal d'histoire naturelle de Belgique. 2 (in French). 18: 3–73.
- ^ "ITIS Standard Report - Error". Archived from the original on 2009-03-12. Retrieved 2009-03-12.
- ^ "Garreta - Nomen.at - animals and plants".
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-03-27. Retrieved 2011-03-20.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Garreta - Wikispecies". species.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
- ^ a b Scholtz, Clarke H.; Davis, Adrian L. V.; Kryger, Ute (2009). Evolutionary biology and conservation of dung beetles. Sofia-Moscow: Pensoft Pub. ISBN 978-954-642-517-1.