Hypselogenia geotrupina
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Hypselogenia |
| Species: | H. geotrupina |
| Binomial name | |
| Hypselogenia geotrupina (Billberg, 1817) | |
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Hypselogenia geotrupina is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in Angola, South Africa (Mpumalanga, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Western Cape, Northern Cape, Eastern Cape, Limpopo) and Namibia.[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 17–24 mm (0.67–0.94 in). They are piceous and moderately shiny, occasionally spotless or without bands on the pronotum, or spotless but with a narrow flavescent marginal band on the pronotum, or with a narrow marginal band on the pronotum and with scattered flavescent macules on the elytra and a band of the same colour in the posterior part; or with the elytra similarly maculated but with a broad marginal band and a discoidal narrower one on each side of the pronotum.[3]
Subspecies
- Hypselogenia geotrupina geotrupina (Angola, South Africa: Mpumalanga, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape, Limpopo)
- Hypselogenia geotrupina namaqua Beinhundner & Perissinotto, 2018 (Namibia, South Africa: Western Cape, Northern Cape)
References
- ↑ Global Biodiversity Information Facility
- ↑ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Hypselogenia geotrupina 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 May 20, 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 May 20, 2026.
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