| Holisonycha | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Subfamily: | Melolonthinae |
| Tribe: | Melolonthini |
| Genus: | Holisonycha Péringuey, 1904 |
| Species: | H. mellila
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| Binomial name | |
| Holisonycha mellila Péringuey, 1904
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Holisonycha is a genus of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.1 It is monotypic, being represented by the single species, Holisonycha mellila, which is found in South Africa (Western Cape).23
Description
Adults reach a length of about 10–12 mm (0.39–0.47 in). They are light brick-red or pale testaceous and shining. Each puncture on the upper side has a minute hair. The pronotum has the outer margin somewhat crenulate in the posterior part, and is ciliate. The surface is covered with round, scattered punctures separated by smooth intervals, the punctures are more closely set on the sides and along the anterior margin. The scutellum is impunctate and the elytra are elongated and cylindrical, with the punctures somewhat apart. The pygidium is not distinctly punctate.3
References
References
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility
- Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Holisonycha mellila at Catalogue of Life". World Scarabaeidae Database (version 2025-10-07). In O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D. R. Hernández Robles, C. A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, T. Pape, D. Hobern, S. Garnett, H. Little, R. E. DeWalt, J. Miller, T. Orrell, & R. Aalbu, Catalogue of Life (2026-01-16). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Catalogue of Life Foundation. Retrieved May 5, 2026.
- Péringuey, L. (1904). "Descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa (Lucanidae and Scarabaeidae)" (PDF). Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 13 (1): 1–293. Retrieved May 5, 2026. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.