Garreta

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]

Garreta
Garreta nitens
Scientific classification e
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
  • 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)

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. "ITIS Standard Report - Error". Archived from the original on 2009-03-12. Retrieved 2009-03-12.
  3. "Garreta - Nomen.at - animals and plants".
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-03-27. Retrieved 2011-03-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "Garreta - Wikispecies". species.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
  6. 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.


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