Cleptocaccobius inermis, is a species of dung beetle found in India and Sri Lanka.[1][2][3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Subfamily: | Scarabaeinae |
| Tribe: | Onthophagini |
| Genus: | Cleptocaccobius |
| Species: | C. inermis
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| Cleptocaccobius inermis (Arrow, 1931)
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Description
editThis minute, broadly oval, compact species has an average length of about 3 mm. Body black and shiny. Legs and antennae except blackish club are orange-red in color. Upper surface consists with a thin fine pale setae. Head sparingly punctured with feeble and bluntly bilobed clypeus. Pronotum moderately punctured with blunt front angles. Elytra finely striate and sparingly punctured. Pygidium consists with sparse and very shallow pits. Male has a head without a carina. But in female, clypeus and forehead are separated by a curved carina.[4]
References
edit- ^ "INSECTA: COLEOPTERA: SCARABAEIDAE: SCARABAEINAE DUNG BEETLES". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2021-07-19.
- ^ "Taxonomy browser (Cleptocaccobius inermis)". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2021-07-19.
- ^ Khadakkar, Suvarna S.; Tiple, Ashish D.; Khurad, Arun M. "Scarab Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Scarabaeidae) of Vidarbha, India, with Notes on Distribution". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences. p. 1239. Retrieved 2021-07-19.
- ^ "Cleptocaccobius inermis (Arrow, 1931)". India Biodiversity Portal. Retrieved 2021-07-19.