''Garreta'' is a genus of
dung beetle
Dung beetles are beetles that feed on feces. All species of dung beetle belong to the superfamily Scarabaeoidea, most of them to the subfamilies Scarabaeinae and Aphodiinae of the family Scarabaeidae (scarab beetles). As most species of Scara ...
s (subfamily
Scarabaeinae
The scarab beetle subfamily Scarabaeinae consists of species collectively called true dung beetles (there are also dung beetles in other subfamilies and families). Most of the beetles of this subfamily feed exclusively on dung. However, some ma ...
) in the scarab beetle family (
Scarabaeidae
The family Scarabaeidae, as currently defined, consists of over 35,000 species of beetles worldwide; they are often called scarabs or scarab beetles. The classification of this family has undergone significant change. Several groups formerly tre ...
). There are more than 20 described species;
most are African and some are from Asia.
They are generally found in fairly moist habitats (forest, moist savanna and upland grassland).
All species are ball-rolling dung beetles.
Species
* ''
Garreta australugens''
Davis & Deschodt, 2018
* ''
Garreta azureus''
(Fabricius, 1801)
* ''
Garreta basilewskyi''
(Balthasar, 1964)
* ''
Garreta bechynei''
Pokorny & Zidek, 2018
* ''
Garreta caffer''
(Fahraeus, 1857)
* ''
Garreta crenulatus''
(Kolbe, 1895)
* ''
Garreta dejeani''
(Castelnau, 1840)
* ''
Garreta diffinis''
(Waterhouse, 1890)
* ''
Garreta fastiditus''
(Harold, 1867)
* ''
Garreta gilleti''
(Garreta, 1914)
* ''
Garreta laetus''
(Hope, 1842)
* ''
Garreta lugens''
(Fairmaire, 1891)
* ''
Garreta malleolus''
(Kolbe, 1895)
* ''
Garreta matabelensis''
(Janssens, 1938)
* ''
Garreta mombelgi''
(Boucomont, 1929)
* ''
Garreta morosus''
(Fairmaire, 1886)
* ''
Garreta mundus''
(Wiedemann, 1819)
* ''
Garreta namalugens''
Davis & Deschodt, 2018
* ''
Garreta nitens''
(Olivier, 1789)
* ''
Garreta nyassicus''
(Kolbe, 1897)
* ''
Garreta opacus''
(Redtenbacher, 1848)
* ''
Garreta ruficornis''
(Motschulsky, 1854)
* ''
Garreta rutilans''
(Castelnau, 1840)
* ''
Garreta smaragdifer''
(Walker, 1858)
* ''
Garreta sumptuosus''
(Castelnau, 1840)
* ''
Garreta sylvestris''
Mittal, 2011
* ''
Garreta unicolor''
(Fahraeus, 1857)
* ''
Garreta wahlbergi''
(Fahraeus, 1857)
Gallery
Garreta unicolor 000244-2.jpg, ''Garreta unicolor'' rolling a ball of rhinoceros
A rhinoceros ( ; ; ; : rhinoceros or rhinoceroses), commonly abbreviated to rhino, is a member of any of the five extant taxon, extant species (or numerous extinct species) of odd-toed ungulates (perissodactyls) in the family (biology), famil ...
dung in Ithala Game Reserve
Ithala Game Reserve is situated in 290 km2 of rugged, mountainous thornveld, about 400 km north of Durban, in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is one of the youngest game parks in South Africa. The altitude varies from 400 ...
Garreta nitens 246-1 2016 01 01.jpg, ''Garreta nitens''
References
Scarabaeinae
{{Scarabaeinae-stub