Platychelus hottentotus
| Platychelus hottentotus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Platychelus |
| Species: | P. hottentotus
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| Binomial name | |
| Platychelus hottentotus Péringuey, 1902
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Platychelus hottentotus 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 6–9 mm (0.24–0.35 in). They have the same shape and sculpture as Platychelus unguiculatus, but somewhat more robust. The pronotum is somewhat metallic green, but the elytra have not only along the suture a broad band of very dense and somewhat long, lanceolate appressed white hairs, but the long impression along the humeral callus is filled with a band of similar hairs. The scutellum is densely hairy, and the hairs are white. The appressed hairs on the pygidium are white in both sexes.[3]
References
- ^ BioLib
- ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Platychelus hottentotus 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.