Pachylomera
Sign in to savePachylomera is a genus of dung beetle from the family Scarabaeidae and tribe Scarabaeini, with records from Africa south of the equator.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 11
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Collections
- TAMU, USNM
- Recorded in
- South Africa, Zimbabwe
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- Scarabaeidae
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Pachylomera is a genus of dung beetle from the family Scarabaeidae and tribe Scarabaeini, with records from Africa south of the equator.
==Species and description== BioLib lists: Pachylomera femoralis Kirby, 1828 - type species Pachylomera opaca Lansberge, 1874 P. femoralis is the largest flying, ball-rolling dung beetle in the world. The front legs are particularly strong, with the flattened leg appendages: it walks with these while rolling balls of buffalo and elephant dung.
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