Gymnopleurus gemmatus

Gymnopleurus gemmatus, is a species of dung beetle found in India, and Sri Lanka.^[1][2][3]

Gymnopleurus gemmatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Scarabaeiformia
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Genus:	Gymnopleurus
Species:	G. gemmatus
Binomial name
Gymnopleurus gemmatus (Harold, 1871)
Synonyms
Scarabaeus gemmatus Harold, 1871 Scarabaeus granulatus Fabricius, 1792

Description

This oval, less convex species has an average length of about 6 to 9 mm. Body blackish with minute grey setae on dorsum. There are shining bare patches upon the pronotum, a central spot and parts of elytra, and sutural margins. There is a common transverse irregular patch located at the middle as well as a smaller common patch located behind it just before the apices. Head densely granular and clypeus with two blunt lobes in front. Pronotum granular. Elytra irregularly rugose, finely striate, and very deeply excised at the sides. Pygidium closely punctured.^[4][5]