Peritrichia dimidiata

Peritrichia dimidiata is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.^[1] It is found in South Africa (Western Cape).^[2][3]

Adults reach a length of about 6–8.5 mm (0.24–0.33 in). They are black, with the elytra slightly testaceous and very broadly infuscate laterally in both sexes. The head and pronotum are clothed with very long, greyish and black hairs, quite white, however, along the margin of the pronotum, and without any trace of scales. The elytra are clothed with hairs as long as on the pronotum, but with the greyish white ones more numerous, and they have a marginal band of small white scales, which cannot be said to be dense, along the outer margin, and forming a more distinct band along the apical part, and sometimes ascending along the posterior part of the suture. The pygidium is clothed with long black hairs and squamose ones in males.^[3]