Periclitopa gariepina
| Periclitopa gariepina | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Periclitopa |
| Species: | P. gariepina |
| Binomial name | |
| Periclitopa gariepina Péringuey, 1904 | |
Periclitopa gariepina is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in South Africa (Northern Cape).[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 17 mm (0.67 in). They are piceous, with the antennae fulvous, and the long pubescence clothing the pronotum, the scutellum and the pectus is light fulvous. The head and clypeus are closely and roughly punctured, briefly pubescent, but the hairs on the vertex are long. The pronotum is finely shagreened, moderately rounded laterally, but slightly less narrowed towards the posterior than towards the anterior part, and with the basal angle rounded. The elytra are strongly coriaceous and with a minute, appressed greyish hair in each interstice. The pygidial part has appressed, somewhat long hairs and the abdominal segments more deeply punctured than the pygidium, each puncture bearing a somewhat long, fulvous hair.[3]
References
- ↑ Global Biodiversity Information Facility
- ↑ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Periclitopa gariepina 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 14, 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 14, 2026.
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