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Psilonychus deridens
Psilonychus deridens is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal) and Zimbabwe.
From the article Psilonychus deridens on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Adults reach a length of about 13–13.5 mm (0.51–0.53 in). Males are dark bronze-green and moderately shining, while females are testaceous-red. The antennae are piceous in males, red, with the club infuscated in females. The head has a fairly distinct clypeal raised line in both sexes, and the head and clypeus are clothed with long, greyish hairs in males and are without any scale, but with some squamiform hairs in females. The elytra have four rows of not very closely set, white, elongated scales, broadly interrupted two or three times. The edge of the propygidium, pygidium and abdomen are clothed with denser and slightly longer 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 686502.