Leucopholis stainesi
| Leucopholis stainesi | |
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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: | Leucopholis |
| Species: | L. stainesi
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| Binomial name | |
| Leucopholis stainesi Calcetas, 2023
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Leucopholis stainesi is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in the Philippines (Mindanao).
Description
Adults reach a length of about 35 mm. The dorsum is dichromatic and the head, pronotum, scutellum, elytra and legs are blackish, with a brownish tinge on the posterior margin of the elytra. The body covered with yellowish white scales. The venter is dichromatic blackish with little shade of brown.
Etymology
The species is named is named in honour of Dr Charles Staines, world expert on hispines at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, Maryland, USA.[1]
References
- ^ Part of this text is from “Three new species of the genus Leucopholis Dejean, 1833 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Melolonthinae, Leucopholini) from the Philippines and designation of a neotype for L. semperi Brenske, 1896” by Calcetas O.A.. This article is licensed under the CC BY 4.0 license