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Platychelus dispar
Platychelus dispar is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in South Africa (Cape).
From the article Platychelus dispar on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Adults reach a length of about 6.5 mm (0.26 in). They are black, with the elytra brownish red. They are clothed on the pronotum, under side and legs with a very dense ashy-grey pubescence. The elytra have a short but deep, basal, supra-humeral impression, and are slightly impressed longitudinally along the median part of the suture, they are moderately closely punctured, each puncture bearing an appressed short blackish hair.
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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 684126.