Mitrophorus natalensis
| Mitrophorus natalensis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Mitrophorus |
| Species: | M. natalensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Mitrophorus natalensis Péringuey, 1902
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Mitrophorus natalensis is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal).[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 6.5 mm (0.26 in). They are black, with the head closely scabrose, and clothed with moderately short, dense, sub-flavescent hairs. The pronotum is very closely scabroso-punctate and clothed with a villose, somewhat short, sub-flavescent pubescence. The elytra are fuscous brown, covered with appressed hair-like flavescent scales, denser in the posterior part along the suture and the apical margin. The edge of the propygidium, the pygidium and abdomen are clothed with appressed squamiform flavescent hairs.[3]
References
- ^ BioLib
- ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Mitrophorus natalensis 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.