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Thabina simplex
Thabina is a genus of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is monotypic, being represented by the single species, Thabina simplex, which is found in South Africa (Gauteng, North West).
From the article Thabina on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Adults reach a length of about 5 mm (0.20 in). They are black, with the head rugose and with some very short, sub-flavescent hairs in the frontal part. The pronotum is broadly and deeply punctured, each puncture bearing a long, somewhat fulvous bristle, and in the furrow as well as along the outer margin are some whitish, appressed squamose hairs. The elytra are somewhat bi-costulate on each side and have along the suture a broad band of partly erect squamose white hairs, and a discoidal one not quite as broad as the juxta-sutural, and sometimes reduced to a faint line, they are deeply but not closely punctured, each puncture bearing a long bristle. The pygidial part and abdomen are clothed with appressed greyish squamose hairs, which are not dense on the pygidium. The legs are bristly and pubescent.
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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 693115.