Aegostheta pubens
| Aegostheta pubens | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Aegostheta |
| Species: | A. pubens |
| Binomial name | |
| Aegostheta pubens (Péringuey, 1904) | |
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Aegostheta pubens is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in South Africa (Eastern Cape).[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 27 mm (1.1 in). They are fuscous, with the elytra and antennae chestnut-brown. The head and pronotum are clothed with a dense, short, appressed, light fulvous pubescence, and the elytra is also clothed, but with a very short, dense pubescence. Both the head and clypeus are covered with fine, very closely set punctures. The pronotum is covered, like the head, with very fine and closely set punctures and the scutellum is very finely punctured and densely pubescent. The elytra are very finely punctured and have on each side three or four somewhat plain striae in addition to the juxta-sutural one.[3]
References
- ↑ Global Biodiversity Information Facility
- ↑ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Aegostheta pubens 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 April 9, 2026.
- 1 2 Péringuey, L. (1904). "Descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa (Lucanidae and Scarabaeidae)" (PDF). Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 13 (1): 1–293. Retrieved April 9, 2026.
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