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Platychelus unguiculatus
Platychelus unguiculatus is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in South Africa (Western Cape).
From the article Platychelus unguiculatus on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Adults reach a length of about 5–6.25 mm (0.197–0.246 in). They are black, with the elytra and legs red and shining. The head and pronotum are clothed with villose sub-flavescent hairs and the elytra are moderately densely pubescent. The pubescence is somewhat greyish, but along the suture and the apical margin there is a band of denser and longer white hairs turning to yellow on the apical margin. The pygidium is clothed with very dense, appressed flavescent squamose hairs.
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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 684154.