Heterochelus viridicollis
| Heterochelus viridicollis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Heterochelus |
| Species: | H. viridicollis
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| Binomial name | |
| Heterochelus viridicollis Blanchard, 1850
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Heterochelus viridicollis 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 5–7 mm (0.20–0.28 in). Males are bronze-black, the pronotum with a greenish tinge. The elytra are chestnut-red, and the scutellum, pygidium and abdomen are clothed with slightly flavescent scales. The pronotum is clothed with a short and not very dense flavescent pubescence, and without any trace of scales, while the elytra are clothed with very fine appressed pubescence. Females have the same colour as the males, but the elytra have on each side three or four bands of slightly flavescent appressed hairs which are denser on the rounded apical part.[3]
References
- ^ BioLib
- ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Heterochelus viridicollis 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.