Mimela macleayana

Mimela macleayana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Superfamily:	Cucujoidea
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Subfamily:	Scarabaeinae
Genus:	Mimela
Species:	M. macleayana
Binomial name
	Mimela macleayana; (Vigors, 1825)
Synonyms
	Euchlora macleayana Vigors, 1825; Mimela macleayana Arrow, 1910;

Mimela macleayana, is a species of true dung beetle found in India and Sri Lanka.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Description

Head, pronotum and scutellum are golden green in color. Elytra green with yellowish outer margins. Body is large, and elongate-oval. Legs, pygidium and ventrum covered with decumbent hairs. Eyes are prominent but with a small clypeus which is coarsely rugose. Forehead strongly punctured. Pronotum punctured and scutellum long and covered with few fine punctures. There are no lateral tooth in tibia of first leg pair.^[6]

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