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Allogymnopleurus
Allogymnopleurus maculosus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Scarabaeiformia
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Subfamily:	Scarabaeinae
Tribe:	Gymnopleurini
Genus:	Allogymnopleurus Janssens, 1940

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

Characters

These include:

• 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

Gallery

• Allogymnopleurus thalassinus on zebra dung

References

1. Janssens, André (1940). "Monographie des Gymnopleurides (Coleoptera Lamellicornia)". Mémoires du Musée royal d'histoire naturelle de Belgique. 2 (in French). 18: 3–73.
2. "Allogymnopleurus - Wikispecies". species.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
3. ^ 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.

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