Scaphorhina hirsuta
| Scaphorhina hirsuta | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Scaphorhina |
| Species: | S. hirsuta |
| Binomial name | |
| Scaphorhina hirsuta (Péringuey, 1904) | |
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Scaphorhina hirsuta is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe.[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 18 mm (0.71 in). They are reddish-brown, with the elytra light chestnut-brown, the club of the antennae flavescent, and the frontal part, pronotum, scutellum, and pectus clothed with a very long and very dense fulvous pubescence. The propygidium and pygidium have appressed, sub-flavescent, fine hairs similar to but not so dense as those clothing the sides of the abdomen. The elytra have a very short, appressed flavescent pubescence springing from the extremely closely set, fine punctures.[3]
References
- ↑ Global Biodiversity Information Facility
- ↑ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Scaphorhina hirsuta 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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