Platychelus pugionatus
| Platychelus pugionatus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Platychelus |
| Species: | P. pugionatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Platychelus pugionatus Péringuey, 1902
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Platychelus pugionatus 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 mm (0.20 in). They are aeneous and shining, with the elytra light chestnut-brown, and clothed on the pronotum, the pygidial part, the under side and legs, with very long and dense light fulvous hairs. The head and clypeus are granular and the pronotum is plainly scabroso-punctate in the anterior half, normally punctate in the posterior, and has a short, shallow, basal longitudinal furrow. The scutellum is clothed with fulvous hairs and the elytra are irregularly punctulate, and nearly glabrous.[3]
References
- ^ BioLib
- ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Platychelus pugionatus 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.