''Pachylomera''
[Kirby W (1828) A description of some Coleopterous insects in the collection of the Rev. F.W.Hope. ''Zoological Journal'' 3: 520-525.] 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 ...
from the 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 ...
and tribe
Scarabaeini
The ScarabaeiniLatreille PA (1802) ''Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. Tome 3.'' F. Dufart, Paris. are a Tribe (biology), tribe of old-world Scarabaeinae, dung beetle genera, erected by Pierre André ...
, with records from Africa south of the equator.
Species and description
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genus
''Pachylomera'' Kirby, 1828 (retrieved 23 August 2021) lists:
# ''
Pachylomera femoralis''
Kirby, 1828 - type species
# ''
Pachylomera opaca''
Lansberge, 1874
''P. femoralis'' is the largest flying, ball-rolling dung beetle in the world. The front legs are particularly strong, with the flattened leg appendages: it walks with these while rolling balls of
buffalo and
elephant
Elephants are the largest living land animals. Three living species are currently recognised: the African bush elephant ('' Loxodonta africana''), the African forest elephant (''L. cyclotis''), and the Asian elephant ('' Elephas maximus ...
dung.
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Scarabaeidae genera
Beetles of Africa