Thaumaglossa pici, is a species of skin beetle found in Sri Lanka.[1]
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| Thaumaglossa pici Hava, 2008
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Description edit
Total length of female is about 2.70 to 2.80 mm. Cuticle black and dark brown dorsally and black ventrally. Body oval. Head finely punctuate with long erect white-grey pubescence. Palpi yellow. Eyes are very large. Antennae with 11 segments and dark-brown. Pronotum finely punctuate with long recumbent white-grey pubescence and a medial black spot. Scutellum triangular. Elytra black, with dark-brown apex. Epipleuron black, with white pubescence. Femora dark-brown, and tibiae brown with short white setae. In each elytron there are, one humeral, pre-scutellar, median and apical spots.[2]
References edit
- ^ "Thaumaglossa - BioNames Search". bionames.org. Retrieved 2021-08-08.
- ^ "Revision of the Thaumaglossa tonkinea species group (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Megatominae) from the Oriental Region". Calodema Supplementary Paper No. 86 (2008). Retrieved 2021-08-08.
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