Thaumaglossa tonkinea, is a species of skin beetle found in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, China, Taiwan and probably Sri Lanka.[1][2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Dermestidae |
| Genus: | Thaumaglossa |
| Species: | T. tonkinea
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| Thaumaglossa tonkinea Pic, 1916
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Description
editThis oval shaped beetle has a total body length is about 2.5 to 2.9 mm.[3] Cuticle black to dark brown dorsally and blackish ventrallly. Head finely punctuate with long erect white-grey pubescence. Palpi yellow. Eyes are very large. Antennae consists with 11 segments and dark-brown in color. Punctuation of pronotum fine, with long recumbent white-grey pubescence. There is a black medial spot on pronotum. Scutellum triangular, with fine puncturation and clothed with very short white pubescence. Elytra black with dark-brown apex. Epipleuron black, fringed with white pubescence. Femora dark-brown, with brown tibiae with short white setae.[4]
References
edit- ^ Kadej, M.; Háva, J. (2013). "A New Thaumaglossa Species from Laos (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Megatominae), with a Key to the Laosan Species". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 106 (5): 555–561. doi:10.1603/AN13026. S2CID 85171002.
- ^ "Contribution to the Dermestidae of Taiwan (Coleoptera)" (PDF). Latvijas Entomologs 2009, 47: 21-26. Retrieved 2021-08-08.
- ^ "Thaumaglossa tonkinea Pic, 1916". www.dermestidae.com. Retrieved 2021-08-12.
- ^ "Revision of the Thaumaglossa tonkinea species group (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Megatominae) from the Oriental Region". Calodema Supplementary Paper No. 86 (2008). Retrieved 2021-08-08.
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