Peritrichia pulchella
| Peritrichia pulchella | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Peritrichia |
| Species: | P. pulchella
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| Binomial name | |
| Peritrichia pulchella Péringuey, 1902
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Peritrichia pulchella 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 7.5–8 mm (0.30–0.31 in). They resemble Peritrichia dimidiata and Peritrichia capicola, but there is no trace of discoidal hairy spots on the pronotum. The elytra are quite black, with the greyish pubescence darker in males, and they have a faint outer marginal band of elongate scales, which less dense or less conspicuous than in P. dimidiata. The pygidium is hairy and scaly only in females.[3]
References
- ^ BioLib
- ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Peritrichia pulchella 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.