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Genus of beetles From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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All species are ball-rolling dung beetles.
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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)
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Gallery
Garreta unicolor rolling a ball of rhinoceros dung in Ithala Game Reserve
Garreta nitens
References
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