Platychelus gentilis
| Platychelus gentilis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Platychelus |
| Species: | P. gentilis
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| Binomial name | |
| Platychelus gentilis Péringuey, 1902
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Platychelus gentilis is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in South Africa (Cape).[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 5.5 mm (0.22 in). They are very similar to Platychelus dimidiatus and Platychelus basalis, but at once distinguished by the elytra which are a little more costulate on the discoidal part. The head and pronotum are bronze-green and the elytra are slightly rufescent along the base in the male, but not in the female, and are dark bronze for the greatest part of the length. Also, the pubescence of the pronotum and elytra is much shorter than in P. dimidiatus, but the bands of whitish hairs are similar. The scutellum, propygidium, and abdomen are clothed with dense, squamose, slightly flavescent hairs, which in the female are less squamose and more yellow.[3]
References
- ^ BioLib
- ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Platychelus gentilis 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.