Ablabera capicola
| Ablabera capicola | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Ablabera |
| Species: | A. capicola
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| Binomial name | |
| Ablabera capicola Péringuey, 1904
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Ablabera capicola is a species of beetle discovered by Louis Péringuey in 1904.[1] It is found in South Africa (Western Cape, Eastern Cape).[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 7-7.5 mm. The head and prothorax are black, the elytra fuscous or faintly chestnut-brown in the posterior part and the under side is infuscate. The legs are reddish, and the club of the antennae is fuscous, while the pedicel is rufescent. The head and prothorax are glabrous, the latter, however, fringed with a dense, long fulvous pubescence. The elytra have short, greyish erect hairs arranged in regular rows, and having along the margins a dense fringe of fulvous hairs.[3]
References
- ^ Péringuey L. (1904) Descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa, Transactions of the South African philosophical Society. Cape Town 13:1-293
- ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Ablabera capicola at Catalogue of Life". World Scarabaeidae Database (version 2025-10-07). In O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D. R. Hernández Robles, C. A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, T. Pape, D. Hobern, S. Garnett, H. Little, R. E. DeWalt, J. Miller, T. Orrell, & R. Aalbu, Catalogue of Life (2025-10-10 XR). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Catalogue of Life Foundation. Retrieved January 9, 2026.
- ^ a b Péringuey, L. (1904). "Descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa (Lucanidae and Scarabaeidae)" (PDF). Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 13 (1): 1–293. Retrieved January 9, 2026. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.