Allogymnopleurus

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Allogymnopleurus maculosus MacLeay, 1821 (3401668138).jpg

| image_caption = Allogymnopleurus maculosus

| taxon = Allogymnopleurus

| authority = Janssens, 1940{{cite journal | last = Janssens | first = André | title = Monographie des Gymnopleurides (Coleoptera Lamellicornia) | language = fr | journal = Mémoires du Musée royal d'histoire naturelle de Belgique | series = 2 | volume = 18 | pages = 3–73 | year = 1940 | url = https://biblio.naturalsciences.be/rbins-publications/memoirs-of-the-royal-institute-of-natural-sciences-of-belgium-second-series/18-1940/vol-18-0251d5x-text.pdf/at_download/file}}

| display_parents = 2

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

}}

Allogymnopleurus is a genus of scarab beetles in the tribe Gymnopleurini.{{cite web|title=Allogymnopleurus - Wikispecies|url=https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Allogymnopleurus|website=species.wikimedia.org|access-date=10 December 2016}} It includes 20 species; 17 are restricted to the Afrotropics, one is Afrotropical/Palearctic, and two Oriental.{{cite book|last1=Davis|first1=Adrian L.V.|last2=Frolov|first2=Andrey V.|last3=Scholtz|first3=Clarke H.|title=The African dung beetle genera|date=2008|publisher=Protea Book House|location=Pretoria|isbn=9781869192440|pages=124–125|edition=1st}}

Characters

These include:

A suture where the thorax joins the abdomen which is clearly visible (from above) at the edge of the elytra
A single terminal spur on each mesotibia
The anterior edge of the clypeus is quadridentate or sexdentate (four or six teeth on the front edge of the head)
Length ranges from 8.1 to 18.2 mm

Gallery

Allogymnopleurus thalassinus 000869-1.jpg|Allogymnopleurus thalassinus on zebra dung

References

Category:Scarabaeinae