Garreta smaragdifer is a species of dung beetle native to India and Sri Lanka.[2][3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Garreta |
| Species: | G. smaragdifer
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Description
editThis very broadly oval, convex species has an average length of about 17 to 18 mm. Body smooth, and shiny. Body color varies from dark blue tor greenish-blue. Head granulate and opaque whereas clypeus acutely notched in the middle. Pronotum and elytra very smooth and shiny. Pronotum sparsely punctured, whereas the front angles are minutely rugose and opaque. Elytra very finely striate and abdominal base is sharply carinate at the sides. Pygidium finely coriaceous and sub-opaque. In male, extremity of the front tibia is abruptly incurved and truncate.[4][5]
References
edit- ^ Walker, Francis (1858). "Characters of some apparently undescribed Ceylon insects". Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Including Zoology, Botany, and Geology. 3. 2 (9): 208. doi:10.1080/00222935808697009.
- ^ Chandra, Kailash; Gupta, Devanshu (2014-06-01). "Studies on Tribe Gymnopleurini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) from Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh with A Checklist from India". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences. 84 (2): 317–330. doi:10.1007/s40011-013-0229-z. S2CID 17658333. Retrieved 2021-07-19.
- ^ Mittal, I.C. (2011). "Synoptic key to Indian species of genus Garreta Janssens (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) with a new species from Haryana (India)". Journal of Entomological Research. 35 (3): 295–298. Retrieved 2021-07-19.
- ^ "Garreta smaragdifer Walker, 1858". India Biodiversity Portal. Retrieved 2021-07-19.
- ^ Pokorný, Svatopluk; Zidek, Jiri (2016). "Review of the Gymnopleurini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). III. Asian species of Garreta Janssens". Insecta Mundi. 0483. Retrieved 2021-07-18 – via digitalcommons.unl.edu.