Aegostheta simplex

Aegostheta simplex
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Scarabaeiformia
Family: Scarabaeidae
Genus: Aegostheta
Species:
A. simplex
Binomial name
Aegostheta simplex

Aegostheta simplex is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in South Africa (Northern Cape).[2][3]

Description

Adults reach a length of about 19 mm (0.75 in). They are brick-red, shining and glabrous on the upper side, but with the vertical anterior part of the clypeus, the labrum, and the outer margin of the pronotum hairy, the basal part and also the outer margins of the elytra are thickly and densely pubescent. The pubescence is fulvous. The club of the antennae is chestnut-brown. The whole head has somewhat scattered, round punctures. The pronotum is covered with equi-distant, not closely set, round punctures and the elytra are covered with deep, round, equi-distant punctures separated by an interval broader than their diameter. The propygidium is very briefly pubescent and the pygidium is sparsely punctulate but smooth in the median part, not pubescent. The abdomen is sparsely punctulate even on the sides and the legs are very slightly punctate.[3]

References

  1. ^ Global Biodiversity Information Facility
  2. ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Aegostheta simplex 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 April 8, 2026.
  3. ^ a b Péringuey, L. (1904). "Descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa (Lucanidae and Scarabaeidae)" (PDF). Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 13 (1): 1–293. Retrieved April 8, 2026. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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