- Animals
- ›Arthropods
- ›Hexapods
- ›Insects
- ›Winged and Once-winged Insects
- ›Beetles
- ›Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf, and Snout Beetles
- ›Scarabaeiform Beetles
- ›Scarabs, Stag Beetles, and Allies
- ›Scarabs
- ›June Beetles
- ›Monkey Beetles
- ›Platychelus
Platychelus glabripennis
Platychelus glabripennis is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in South Africa (Cape).
From the article Platychelus glabripennis on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Adults reach a length of about 9 mm (0.35 in). The shape and size are similar to those of Platychelus hoploides. They are black, with a slight metallic tinge. The head is scabrose, but the clypeus is a little attenuate laterally towards the apex which is straight with the margin reflexed and the outer angles sharp. The pronotum, pygidial part, abdomen, pectus, and legs are clothed with a very long and very dense yellow pubescence. The elytra are brick red, somewhat shining, not distinctly costulate, but having instead of scabrose, closely set punctures, irregularly scattered round ones, more distinct and somewhat seriate in the dorsal intervals, and along the outer margin.
== References ==
Listen
Looking for field recordings…
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Platychelus glabripennis in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
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 684131.