Kubousa elegans
| Kubousa elegans | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Kubousa |
| Species: | K. elegans
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| Binomial name | |
| Kubousa elegans Péringuey, 1902
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Kubousa elegans 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 3.5–5 mm (0.14–0.20 in). Males are black, with the tarsi rufescent, covered on the upper side with small and dense but not quite contiguous greyish white slightly hair-like scales, and on the pygidial part and abdomen with thicker and broader silvery-white ones. The scales on the elytra are denser than on the pronotum, but not quite contiguous. The elytra are very faintly costulate on each side, and they have a distinct longitudinal basal impression along the humeral callus. Females are similar to males in size, shape, and vestiture, but the scales are a little more flavescent, and those on the pygidium a little more hair-like.[3]
References
- ^ BioLib
- ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Kubousa elegans 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 16, 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 16, 2026. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.