Garreta

{{Short description|Genus of beetles}}

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| image = Garreta nitens Olivier, 1789 (2937640395).jpg

| image_caption = Garreta nitens

| taxon = Garreta

| authority = Janssens, 1940{{cite journal | last = Janssens | first = André | title = Monographie des Gymnopleurides (Coleoptera Lamellicornia) | lang = 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}}

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Garreta is a genus of dung beetles (subfamily Scarabaeinae) in the scarab beetle family (Scarabaeidae).{{cite web|url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt |title=ITIS Standard Report - Error |access-date=2009-03-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090312100559/http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt |archive-date=2009-03-12 }}{{Cite web|url=https://nomen.at/Garreta|title = Garreta - Nomen.at - animals and plants}}{{cite web|url=http://data.gbif.org/species/browse/taxon/13143053 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2011-03-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150327011528/http://data.gbif.org/species/browse/taxon/13143053 |archive-date=2015-03-27 }} There are more than 20 described species;{{cite web|title=Garreta - Wikispecies|url=https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Garreta|website=species.wikimedia.org|accessdate=24 November 2016}} most are African and some are from Asia.{{cite book|last1=Scholtz|first1=Clarke H.|last2=Davis|first2=Adrian L. V.|last3=Kryger|first3=Ute|title=Evolutionary biology and conservation of dung beetles|date=2009|publisher=Pensoft Pub.|location=Sofia-Moscow|isbn=978-954-642-517-1}} They are generally found in fairly moist habitats (forest, moist savanna and upland grassland).

All species are ball-rolling dung beetles.