Garreta is a genus of dung beetles (subfamily Scarabaeinae) in the scarab beetle family (Scarabaeidae). There are more than 20 described species; most are African and some are from Asia. They are generally found in fairly moist habitats (forest, moist savanna and upland grassland).
All species are ball-rolling dung beetles.
Species
- Garreta australugens <small>Davis & Deschodt, 2018</small>
- Garreta azureus <small>(Fabricius, 1801)</small>
- Garreta basilewskyi <small>(Balthasar, 1964)</small>
- Garreta bechynei <small>Pokorny & Zidek, 2018</small>
- Garreta caffer <small>(Fahraeus, 1857)</small>
- Garreta crenulatus <small>(Kolbe, 1895)</small>
- Garreta dejeani <small>(Castelnau, 1840)</small>
- Garreta diffinis <small>(Waterhouse, 1890)</small>
- Garreta fastiditus <small>(Harold, 1867)</small>
- Garreta gilleti <small>(Garreta, 1914)</small>
- Garreta laetus <small>(Hope, 1842)</small>
- Garreta lugens <small>(Fairmaire, 1891)</small>
- Garreta malleolus <small>(Kolbe, 1895)</small>
- Garreta matabelensis <small>(Janssens, 1938)</small>
- Garreta mombelgi <small>(Boucomont, 1929)</small>
- Garreta morosus <small>(Fairmaire, 1886)</small>
- Garreta mundus <small>(Wiedemann, 1819)</small>
- Garreta namalugens <small>Davis & Deschodt, 2018</small>
- Garreta nitens <small>(Olivier, 1789)</small>
- Garreta nyassicus <small>(Kolbe, 1897)</small>
- Garreta opacus <small>(Redtenbacher, 1848)</small>
- Garreta ruficornis <small>(Motschulsky, 1854)</small>
- Garreta rutilans <small>(Castelnau, 1840)</small>
- Garreta smaragdifer <small>(Walker, 1858)</small>
- Garreta sumptuosus <small>(Castelnau, 1840)</small>
- Garreta sylvestris <small>Mittal, 2011</small>
- Garreta unicolor <small>(Fahraeus, 1857)</small>
- Garreta wahlbergi <small>(Fahraeus, 1857)</small>
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