Platychelus jucundus
| Platychelus jucundus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Platychelus |
| Species: | P. jucundus
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| Binomial name | |
| Platychelus jucundus Péringuey, 1902
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Platychelus jucundus 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 9.25 mm (0.364 in). They are greenish bronze, brighter on the plate behind the head (pronotum). The head, pronotum, rear tip (pygidial part), abdomen, underside of the chest (pectus), and legs are clothed with a long and dense greyish hair covering which is erect on the head and pronotum. The plate between the wing covers (scutellum) is also covered in hair and the surface of the wing covers (elytra) is extremely finely and closely textured, and instead of rough pits (scabrose punctures) they are covered with closely set, equi-distant, small granules from the intervals of which spring small, flat-lying, greyish hairs.[3]
References
- ^ BioLib
- ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Platychelus jucundus 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.