Heterochelus pavidus

Heterochelus pavidus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Scarabaeiformia
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Genus:	Heterochelus
Species:	H. pavidus
Binomial name
	Heterochelus pavidus; Péringuey, 1908

Heterochelus pavidus is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.^[1] It is found in South Africa (Gauteng).^[2]^[3]

Description

Adults reach a length of about 4.5–6 mm (0.18–0.24 in). Males are dark greenish bronze with the elytra and legs chestnut-brown or reddish. The pronotum is strongly scabrose and clothed with a long, fine, greyish or sub-flavescent upright pubescence. The scutellum is closely scaly and the elytra are deeply sulcate, the sulci filled with greyish-flavescent or flavescent closely set scales. The propygidium has a narrow band of flavous scales and the pygidium is covered with a velvety black-brown tomentum reaching from the base to two-thirds of the length, and then to the apex with closely set, small yellow scales. Females differ from males in the less dense rows of more hair-like scales on the elytra, and the pygidium bears two basal brown velvety patches.^[3]

References

↑ BioLib
↑ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Heterochelus pavidus 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. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

[1] BioLib

[:1-2] Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Heterochelus pavidus 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.

[:2-3] 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. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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