Lepitrichula setosa
| Lepitrichula setosa | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Lepitrichula |
| Species: | L. setosa
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| Binomial name | |
| Lepitrichula setosa (Burmeister, 1844)
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Lepitrichula setosa is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in Namibia, South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng, North West, Limpopo) and Zimbabwe.[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 5.5–6 mm (0.22–0.24 in). They are black, with the elytra testaceous-yellow and the legs piceous. The head and pronotum are densely hairy, the hairs greyish or slightly flavescent, but mixed with sub-squamose ones which are a little more squamosa along the base. The scutellum is clothed with squamose hairs. The elytra are clothed with short, black hairs and a few erect ones which are more numerous and longer in the basal part. On each side of the scutellum, and reaching to about the median part, is an arcuate band of sub-flavescent squamose hairs, as well as a transverse, ill-defined post-median patch of similar scales. The suture and the outer margins of the elytra are infuscate.[3]
References
- ^ BioLib
- ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Lepitrichula setosa 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 4, 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 4, 2026. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.