''Garreta'' is a genus of
dung beetle
Dung beetles are beetles that feed on feces. Some species of dung beetles can bury dung 250 times their own mass in one night.
Many dung beetles, known as ''rollers'', roll dung into round balls, which are used as a food source or breeding cha ...
s (subfamily
Scarabaeinae) in the scarab beetle family (
Scarabaeidae). There are more than 20 described species;
most are African and some are from Asia.
They are generally found in fairly moist habitats (forest, moist savanna and upland grassland).
All species are ball-rolling dung beetles.
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
''Garreta'' is a genus of dung beetles (subfamily Scarabaeinae) in the scarab beetle family ( Scarabaeidae). There are more than 20 described species; most are African and some are from Asia. They are generally found in fairly moist habitats (fo ...
''
(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)
Gallery
Garreta unicolor 000244-2.jpg, ''Garreta unicolor'' rolling a ball of rhinoceros
A rhinoceros (; ; ), commonly abbreviated to rhino, is a member of any of the five extant species (or numerous extinct species) of odd-toed ungulates in the family Rhinocerotidae. (It can also refer to a member of any of the extinct species o ...
dung in Ithala Game Reserve
Ithala Game Reserve is situated in 290 km2 of rugged, mountainous thornveld, about 400 km north of Durban, in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is one of the youngest game parks in South Africa. The altitude varies from 400 m ...
Garreta nitens 246-1 2016 01 01.jpg, ''Garreta nitens''
References
Scarabaeinae
{{Scarabaeinae-stub