Heterochelus bimaculatus
| Heterochelus bimaculatus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Heterochelus |
| Species: | H. bimaculatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Heterochelus bimaculatus Burmeister, 1844
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Heterochelus bimaculatus is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in South Africa (Cape).[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 5.5 mm (0.22 in). They are black, with the elytra clothed with yellow scales but having on each side of the posterior part an oblique, elongate, sub-parallel black or dark brown patch. The legs are reddish brown. The pronotum is covered with lanciform yellow scales moderately dense but looking more like strongly squamiform hairs. The scutellum is densely scaly and the scales on the elytra are small and very dense. There is also a brown patch. The propygidium and sides of the abdomen have yellow scales, but the pygidium is piceous red, and not scaly.[3]
References
- ^ BioLib
- ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Heterochelus bimaculatus 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 9, 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 9, 2026. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.