''Pygora cruralis'' is a species of
Scarabaeidae
The family Scarabaeidae, as currently defined, consists of over 30,000 species of beetles worldwide; they are often called scarabs or scarab beetles. The classification of this family has undergone significant change in recent years. Several sub ...
, the dung beetle family.
It is native to Madagascar. Also, it was discovered by Fairmaire.
Etymology
Pygora Cruralis meant Leg-tailed Flower in
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
.
Subspecies
*''P. crualis meridionalis'' (Ruter, 1964)
References
Cetoniinae
Beetles described in 1903
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