Perabula morosa
| Perabula morosa | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Perabula |
| Species: | P. morosa |
| Binomial name | |
| Perabula morosa (Péringuey, 1902) | |
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Perabula morosa is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in South Africa (Western Cape).[2][3]
Description
[edit]Adults reach a length of about 7 mm (0.28 in). They are fuscous brown, opaque, and clothed with some slightly remote, appressed minute ashy-grey hairs. The head and pronotum are covered with cicatricose shallow punctures from the centre of which springs a very short bristle. The pronotum also has a shallow but plainly visible longitudinal furrow. The scutellum has a few small appressed hairs and the elytra are plainly tri-costate on the discoidal part and also have another costa above the outer margin, the suture is also raised, and the sculpture consists of closely set cicatricose punctures a little more closely set than on the pronotum, and bearing likewise a very small appressed hair, but the costae and the suture have in addition a series of distant, short setae. The pygidium and abdomen have scattered minute hairs and the legs are punctate and have similarly appressed hairs.[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ BioLib
- ↑ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Perabula morosa at Catalogue of Life". World Scarabaeidae Database (version 2025-10-07). In O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D. R. Hernández Robles, C. A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, T. Pape, D. Hobern, S. Garnett, H. Little, R. E. DeWalt, J. Miller, T. Orrell, & R. Aalbu, Catalogue of Life (2026-01-16). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Catalogue of Life Foundation. Retrieved March 20, 2026.
- 1 2 Péringuey, L. (1902). "Descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa (Lucanidae and Scarabaeidae), Sub-families: Rutelinae, Hopliinae". Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 12: 561–920. Retrieved March 20, 2026.
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