Platychelus caffer
| Platychelus caffer | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Platychelus |
| Species: | P. caffer
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| Binomial name | |
| Platychelus caffer (Boheman, 1857)
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Platychelus caffer is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in South Africa (Cape, Free State).[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 5.5 mm (0.22 in). They are black, with a faint metallic tinge. The elytra have a faint brownish tinge. The head is very rugose and hairy and the pronotum is scabrose in the interior part and sides, punctate in the discoidal posterior part, densely pubescent, with the pubescence long, erect, and greyish. The elytra are deeply and somewhat closely punctate and clothed with an equal, somewhat dense fuscous pubescence. The pygidial part, abdomen, pectus, and hind legs are clothed with a similar pubescence which is not, however, very dense.[3]
References
- ^ BioLib
- ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Platychelus caffer 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 16, 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 16, 2026. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.