Outeniqua festiva
| Outeniqua festiva | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Outeniqua |
| Species: | O. festiva
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| Binomial name | |
| Outeniqua festiva (Péringuey, 1885)
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Outeniqua festiva is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in South Africa (Northern Cape, Gauteng, Limpopo, North West, Mpumalanga), Botswana, Eswatini, Mozambique, Namibia and Zimbabwe.[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 5.5–9 mm (0.22–0.35 in). Males are black, with the elytra flavescent or light testaceous yellow, and the hind legs occasionally red or reddish brown. The pronotum has a broad margin all round of bluish opaline scales and is clothed on the disk with flavescent, dense, short hairs. The scutellum is squamulose and the elytra have a very broad sutural band of bluish opaline ovate scales reaching from the base to the apex. The pygidial part and the underside are covered with dense, similar scales, which are also somewhat densely sprinkled on the intermediate and hind femora. In females, the discoidal part of the pronotum and of the elytra is sprinkled with numerous scales, not as closely set, however, as those on the marginal and juxta-sutural bands, and these scales have a more golden sheen than in males.[3]
Subspecies
- Outeniqua festiva festiva (Botswana, Eswatini, Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe, South Africa: North West, Mpumalanga, Gauteng, Limpopo)
- Outeniqua festiva andreaei Schein, 1959 (South Africa: Northern Cape, Gauteng, Limpopo)
References
- ^ BioLib
- ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Outeniqua festiva 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 18, 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 18, 2026. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.