Dichelus villosus
| Dichelus villosus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Dichelus |
| Species: | D. villosus
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| Binomial name | |
| Dichelus villosus (Burmeister, 1844)
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Dichelus villosus is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in South Africa (Western Cape, Northern Cape, Limpopo).[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 7–7.25 mm (0.276–0.285 in). They are black, with the elytra chestnut-brown, but occasionally black. The legs are piceous red and occasionally reddish brown. The head and pronotum are as in Dichelus dentipes, but the elytra are narrower though equal in length, distinctly bi-costulate on each side, and they have each three hands of elongate, somewhat hair-like, greyish-white or slightly flavescent scales, often partly obliterated.[3]
Subspecies
- Dichelus villosus villosus (Western Cape, Northern Cape, Limpopo)
- Dichelus villosus luteopygus Schein, 1958 (Western Cape, Northern Cape)
References
- ^ BioLib
- ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Dichelus (Dichelus) villosus 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 (2026-01-16). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Catalogue of Life Foundation. Retrieved March 6, 2026.
- ^ a b Péringuey, L. (1902). "Descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa (Lucanidae and Scarabaeidae), Sub-families: Rutelinae, Hopliinae". Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 12: 561–920. Retrieved March 6, 2026. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.