Heterochelus fraudulentus
| Heterochelus fraudulentus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Heterochelus |
| Species: | H. fraudulentus
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| Binomial name | |
| Heterochelus fraudulentus Péringuey, 1902
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Heterochelus fraudulentus is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in South Africa (Western Cape).[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 6 mm (0.24 in). They are black, with the elytra and legs reddish brown and with the scutellum, the pygidial part and the abdomen clothed with contiguous flavescent scales. The elytra have three narrow bands of similar scales. The head and pronotum are clothed with a long, villose sub-flavescent pubescence. The elytra are clothed with dense, greyish appressed hairs, and the three bands consist of round scales situated in two very shallow longitudinal depressions. The legs are reddish, with the hind ones piceous red.[3]
References
- ^ BioLib
- ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Heterochelus fraudulentus 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 12, 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 12, 2026. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.