Peritrichia dimidiata
| Peritrichia dimidiata | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Peritrichia |
| Species: | P. dimidiata |
| Binomial name | |
| Peritrichia dimidiata Burmeister, 1844 | |
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Peritrichia dimidiata is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in South Africa (Western Cape).[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 6–8.5 mm (0.24–0.33 in). They are black, with the elytra slightly testaceous and very broadly infuscate laterally in both sexes. The head and pronotum are clothed with very long, greyish and black hairs, quite white, however, along the margin of the pronotum, and without any trace of scales. The elytra are clothed with hairs as long as on the pronotum, but with the greyish white ones more numerous, and they have a marginal band of small white scales, which cannot be said to be dense, along the outer margin, and forming a more distinct band along the apical part, and sometimes ascending along the posterior part of the suture. The pygidium is clothed with long black hairs and squamose ones in males.[3]
Taxonomy
In his Descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa, Péringuey did not list Peritrichia dimidiata as described by Burmeister in 1844. He did however describe the same species again, and also named it dimidiata. In 1913, Dallatorre renamed Peringuey's dimidiata to peringueyi, but did not actually examine both types. In 1959, Shein compared both types and concluded they represent the same species.[4]
References
- ↑ BioLib
- ↑ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Peritrichia dimidiata 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 4, 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 4, 2026.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. - ↑ Schein, H. (1959). "Die südafrikanischen Pachycnemini (Col., Hopliini)" (PDF). Entomologische Arbeiten Aus Dem Museum G.Frey. 10 (1): 1–150. Retrieved March 23, 2026.