Peritrichia capicola
| Peritrichia capicola | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Peritrichia |
| Species: | P. capicola
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| Binomial name | |
| Peritrichia capicola (Fabricius, 1801)
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Peritrichia capicola is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in South Africa (Western Cape).[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 7.5–9.5 mm (0.30–0.37 in). They are black, with the elytra testaceous red, broadly margined with black outwardly and along the suture in males, redder and not infuscate in females. There is a narrow band of short, sub-squamose hairs along the margins of the pronotum, and as often as not there are two minute patches of similar hairs on the disk. The elytra are clothed with long greyish and black hairs, the former pre-dominating in males, and flavescent in females.[3]
References
- ^ BioLib
- ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Peritrichia capicola 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.