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Platychelus virgatus
Platychelus virgatus is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in South Africa (Western Cape).
From the article Platychelus virgatus on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Adults reach a length of about 5.5 mm (0.22 in). They are black, with a very faint metallic tinge. The pronotum is clothed with a moderately short, dense greyish pubescence and the scutellum is hairy. The elytra have three moderately distinct bands of appressed greyish hairs, the median one of which is obliterated past the middle. The pygidial part, abdomen and legs are clothed with appressed hairs, which are flavescent on the pygidium and greyish elsewhere.
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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 684155.