Psilonychus deridens
| Psilonychus deridens | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Psilonychus |
| Species: | P. deridens |
| Binomial name | |
| Psilonychus deridens Péringuey, 1904 | |
Psilonychus deridens is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal) and Zimbabwe.[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 13–13.5 mm (0.51–0.53 in). Males are dark bronze-green and moderately shining, while females are testaceous-red. The antennae are piceous in males, red, with the club infuscated in females. The head has a fairly distinct clypeal raised line in both sexes, and the head and clypeus are clothed with long, greyish hairs in males and are without any scale, but with some squamiform hairs in females. The elytra have four rows of not very closely set, white, elongated scales, broadly interrupted two or three times. The edge of the propygidium, pygidium and abdomen are clothed with denser and slightly longer scales.[3]
References
- ↑ Global Biodiversity Information Facility
- ↑ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Psilonychus deridens 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 6, 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 6, 2026.
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