Pericoptus frontalis

Pericoptus frontalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Scarabaeidae
Genus: Pericoptus
Species: P. frontalis
Binomial name
Pericoptus frontalis
Broun, 1904[1]

Pericoptus frontalis is a New Zealand native sand scarab which inhabits sandy river-banks and sandbars in inland Otago.[2]

References

  1. Broun, Thomas (1904). "Descriptions of new Genera and Species of New Zealand Coleoptera". The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology being a continuation of the Annals combined with Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural. 14: 55–56. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  2. Parkinson, Brian and Don Horne (Photographer). (2007). A Photographic Guide to Insects of New Zealand. New Holland Publishers (NZ) Ltd.
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