Golofa

TaxID: 1247146

Basic Information

Golofa

Golofa Beetles

Golofa is a genus of rhinoceros beetles. The name Golofa is the indigenous name used for these beetles in Venezuela, and was adopted as a genus name when originally described in 1837; the genus name is masculine in gender, following ICZN Article 30.2.3.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Arthropoda

Insecta

Coleoptera

Scarabaeidae

Golofa

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Photos (5 photos)

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(c) Jonatan Castro Hernández@BY
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(c) Felix Fleck@BY-NC
Golofa
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(c) Jonatan Castro Hernández@BY
Golofa
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(c) Carlos Alberto Rodriguez@BY
Golofa
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(c) Felix Fleck@BY-NC

Morphological Features

Color dark yellowish brown or reddish brown except for black head, black or piceous markings on pronotum, scutellum, elytral margins, tibiae, tarsi, pygidium, and venter. Antenna with 10 antennomeres, club subequal in length to antennomeres 2–7. Pronotum surface with punctures moderately large (largest on disc), moderately dense. Propygidium with long, dense setae projecting over base of pygidium.

Source: GBIF Life Stage: Adult Source Type: Taxonomic treatment
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Plazi taxonomic treatment

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (1 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
United States of America Quarantine pests —

Distribution (0 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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No distribution records available.

Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

No DNA barcode records available.

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