Heterochelus unguiculatus
| Heterochelus unguiculatus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Heterochelus |
| Species: | H. unguiculatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Heterochelus unguiculatus Burmeister, 1844
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Heterochelus unguiculatus 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 8.5–10 mm (0.33–0.39 in). They are black, with the elytra burnt sienna-brown. All the legs are ferruginous red. The head and pronotum are closely and densely scabroso-punctate, and clothed with short, dense, greyish and brown hair. The scutellum is clothed with short hairs similar in colour and density to the very short sub-erect ones which run along the suture. The elytra are clothed with appressed, very dense and not squamulose brown hairs. The propygidium and the pygidium are clothed with dense black hairs.[3]
References
- ^ BioLib
- ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Heterochelus unguiculatus 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 11, 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 11, 2026. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.