Mitrophorus transvaalensis
| Mitrophorus transvaalensis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Mitrophorus |
| Species: | M. transvaalensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Mitrophorus transvaalensis Péringuey, 1902
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Mitrophorus transvaalensis is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in South Africa (North West).[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 7 mm (0.28 in). They are black and moderately shining. The head is very rugose and the pronotum is deeply but not closely punctate, except on the sides where the punctures are somewhat scabrose, and clothed with a moderately dense sub-flavescent pubescence. The elytra are distinctly bi-costulate on each side and covered with appressed and sub-appressed greyish hairs. The propygidium and pygidium are covered with similar hairs, which are however shorter and more squamiform.[3]
References
- ^ BioLib
- ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Mitrophorus transvaalensis 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.