Monochelus natalensis
| Monochelus natalensis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Monochelus |
| Species: | M. natalensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Monochelus natalensis Péringuey, 1885
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Monochelus natalensis is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal, Cape).[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 9–11 mm (0.35–0.43 in). Males are black, with the elytra and legs red and shining. The head and pronotum are clothed with round, contiguous, somewhat orange-yellow scales leaving on each side of the disk a denuded longitudinal band. The scutellum is densely scaly and the elytra have a few scattered scales. The propygidium is densely scaly, and the pygidium is less densely scaly. Females have the same colour and vestiture as the males, and the scales are similar and arranged in the same manner.[3]
References
- ^ BioLib
- ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Monochelus 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 17, 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 17, 2026. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.