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Pachycnema melanospila
Pachycnema melanospila is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in South Africa (Western Cape).
From the article Pachycnema melanospila on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Adults reach a length of about 9 mm (0.35 in). The head and pronotum are black and covered with dense fuscous hairs interspersed with moderately dense somewhat flavescent hair-like appressed scales. The elytra are dark chestnut (almost bordering on fuscous) brown, and are covered with ashy-grey scales, and having on each side one distinct median blackish round spot and another one somewhat indistinct. The legs are piceous and the pygidium is covered with yellow scales.
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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 680648.