| Perabula marqueza | |
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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 |
| Genus: | Perabula |
| Species: | P. marqueza
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| Binomial name | |
| Perabula marqueza (Péringuey, 1902)
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Perabula marqueza is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.1 It is found in Mozambique.23
Description
Adults reach a length of about 8 mm (0.31 in). They are dark chestnut-brown. The head is finely punctured and the pronotum is very finely punctulate, without any traces of larger punctures, and having some appressed squamulose hairs short and not set close to each other. The scutellum has a few squamose hairs. The elytra are plainly tri-costate on each side, the suture is a little raised, the two intermediate spaces between the suture and the second costa are also slightly raised in the centre, they are very coriaceous, and moderately densely clothed with small, not closely set squamulose greyish scales.3
References
References
- BioLib
- Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Perabula marqueza 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 March 20, 2026.
- Péringuey, L. (1902). "Descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa (Lucanidae and Scarabaeidae), Sub-families: Rutelinae, Hopliinae". Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 12: 561–920. Retrieved March 20, 2026. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.