Heterochelus femoralis
| Heterochelus femoralis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Heterochelus |
| Species: | H. femoralis
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| Binomial name | |
| Heterochelus femoralis Péringuey, 1902
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Heterochelus femoralis is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in South Africa (North West).[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 5–6.5 mm (0.20–0.26 in). They are black, with the elytra and legs brownish red. The elytra are clothed with small, round yellow scales. The head and pronotum are punctate and clothed with partly appressed, partly erect flavous hairs, and having a more or less distinct basal band of elongate scales, which also partly fill the posterior part of the longitudinal median groove. The scutellum is clothed with lanceolate scales and the propygidium and pygidium are covered with very minute contiguous scales.[3]
References
- ^ BioLib
- ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Heterochelus femoralis 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.