Agaocephala cornigera

(Agaocephala cornigera)

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Description

Agaocephala cornigera is a beetle species described by Amédée Louis Michel Lepeletier and Jean Guillaume Audinet Serville in 1828. Agaocephala cornigera is part of the genus Agaocephala and the family Dynastidae. Agaocephala cornigera is a beetle belonging to the family Scarabaeidae. They are housed in the subfamily Hornbills (Dynastinae). A medium-sized (preferably 20-40 millimeters), broad, powerful horn beetle. Head and forebody are greenish metallic colored, coverts yellow-brown, shiny. The male has two upwardly curved horns in the forehead (one on each side) and a pointed protrusion in the middle of the pronotum, the female lacks these. The cover wings are irregularly punctured, not with dot rows, with black shoulder spot, the surface a little leathery.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum:
Class: Insecta
Order:Coleoptera
Family:Dynastidae
Genus:Agaocephala
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