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Chasme decora
Chasme decora is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in South Africa (Western Cape, Northern Cape).
From the article Chasme decora on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Adults reach a length of about 6–7 mm (0.24–0.28 in). The head and pronotum are black, while the elytra and abdomen are testaceous-brown. The head is punctulate and clothed with black hairs except on the clypeus. The pronotum is clothed with dense hairs and covered with somewhat closely set orange-yellow, minute scales. The elytra have two longitudinal furrow clothed with minute orange scales which also cover the slightly raised costae. There is a series of long, bristle-like hairs along the outer margin.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 656817.