Peritrichia plebeja
| Peritrichia plebeja | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Peritrichia |
| Species: | P. plebeja
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| Binomial name | |
| Peritrichia plebeja Péringuey, 1902
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Peritrichia plebeja 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 8.5–9.5 mm (0.33–0.37 in). They are black, with the anterior and intermediate legs rufescent. The head and pronotum are clothed with long, but not very dense erect black hairs, the latter part shows no trace of scales along the margins, but there are two small median patches of flavescent scales in males. The scutellum has no scales. The elytra are clothed with very short, black hairs, and in males there are four indistinct maculae of flavescent scales on each side, as well as a nearly obliterated narrow, marginal apical band of similar ones. The propygidium and pygidium are scaleless in males, but have a slight fringe of them in females.[3]
References
- ^ BioLib
- ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Peritrichia plebeja 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.