Platychelus gravidus
| Platychelus gravidus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Platychelus |
| Species: | P. gravidus
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| Binomial name | |
| Platychelus gravidus (Burmeister, 1844)
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Platychelus gravidus is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in South Africa (Cape, KwaZulu-Natal).[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 8–10 mm (0.31–0.39 in). Males are black, the pronotum clothed with a dense flavescent or whitish, slightly lanuginose pubescence. The elytra have four bands of appressed, squamulose hairs of the same colour, and the pygidium and abdomen are clothed with similar hairs. Females are smaller, narrower, and darker than males, and the squamose hairs are not so dense.[3]
References
- ^ BioLib
- ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Platychelus gravidus 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.