Heterochelus jucundulus
| Heterochelus jucundulus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Heterochelus |
| Species: | H. jucundulus |
| Binomial name | |
| Heterochelus jucundulus Péringuey, 1908 | |
Heterochelus jucundulus is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in South Africa (Limpopo).[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 5–6.5 mm (0.20–0.26 in). Males are black with a faint metallic tinge, but also occasionally rufescent. The elytra and legs are red. The pronotum is covered with deep scabrose punctures, clothed with a very long erect pubescence, but having also a few appressed squamose hairs. The scutellum is covered with dense whitish flavescent scales. The elytra are moderately deeply bi-sulcate longitudinally on each side, the sulci filled with lanciform, not closely set whitish scales which are replaced on the sides by more hair-like appressed ones. The propygidium has a narrow band of yellowish scales and the pygidium is densely scaly. Females have the same colour and vestiture as males, but the scales on the elytra are more hair-like.[3]
References
- ↑ BioLib
- ↑ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Heterochelus jucundulus 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 25, 2026.
- 1 2 Péringuey, L. (1908). "Descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. Additions and corrections". Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 13: 547–752. Retrieved March 25, 2026.
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