Hoplebaea tessellatula

Hoplebaea tessellatula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Scarabaeiformia
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Genus:	Hoplebaea
Species:	H. tessellatula
Binomial name
	Hoplebaea tessellatula; (Péringuey, 1902)
Synonyms
	Congella tessellatula Péringuey, 1902;

Hoplebaea tessellatula is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.^[1] It is found in South Africa (Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal).^[2]^[3]

Description

Adults reach a length of about 8 mm (0.31 in). They are fuscous brown, with the head black and the legs, especially the anterior ones, redder, covered on the upper and underside, and also on the legs with dense, ashy-grey, minute, appressed, slightly squamulose hairs. The pronotum has cicatricose marks and a median puncture from which springs a minute hair. The scutellum is covered with similar hairs and the elytra are somewhat plainly tri-costate on each side and have in addition a supra-marginal costule, they are finely coriaceous, and very densely hairy, but these hairs are sometimes wanting on the costae at regular intervals, and gives thus to the elytra a sub-tessellated appearance.^[3]

References

↑ BioLib
↑ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Hoplebaea tessellatula 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 20, 2026.
1 2 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 20, 2026. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

[1] BioLib

[:1-2] Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Hoplebaea tessellatula 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 20, 2026.

[:2-3] 1 2 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 20, 2026. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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