Trichinopus flavipennis
| Trichinopus flavipennis | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Trichinopus |
| Species: | T. flavipennis |
| Binomial name | |
| Trichinopus flavipennis Waterhouse, 1875 | |
Trichinopus flavipennis is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in Botswana and Namibia.[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 9.5 mm (0.37 in). The head is black, while the clypeus, pronotum and legs are reddish, and the antennae and underside flavescent and the elytra pale straw-coloured. The pronotum has somewhat scattered punctures bearing each a very long erect hair equal in length to those forming a dense fringe along the outer margins, the punctures are a little more closely set on each side of the median part of the disk, which has, however, an impunctate longitudinal band, the basal part is sinuate and has a somewhat deep impression in the centre of the sinuation. The scutellum is very densely hairy, the flavescent hairs appressed and the elytra are deeply and irregularly punctate, each puncture bearing an erect setulose hair, they are faintly bi-striate on the dorsal part in addition to the plain juxta-sutural stria, and the outer margins have a thick fringe of hairs as long as those on the pronotum, the pubescence on the pygidial part, the abdomen, the pectus, and the femora is also very long and not appressed.[3]
References
- ↑ Global Biodiversity Information Facility
- ↑ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Trichinopus flavipennis 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 15, 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 15, 2026.
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