Inanda gracilis
| Inanda gracilis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Inanda |
| Species: | I. gracilis
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| Binomial name | |
| Inanda gracilis Péringuey, 1902
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Inanda gracilis is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal).[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 5 mm (0.20 in). The head, pronotum, pectus and scutellum are black, while the elytra, abdomen and legs are testaceous red. The head and clypeus are very scabrose and the whole head is covered with an erect, yellow pubescence. The pronotum is closely scabroso-punctate laterally but with the median part of the disk nearly impunctate, and with only a few punctures along the base, it is moderately densely covered with small, sub-squamiform yellow appressed hairs. The elytra are deeply impressed longitudinally along the suture and have a similar discoidal impression reaching from the base to the median part, it is finely but not closely punctured, and in each puncture there is a minute appressed yellow hair. The propygidium, pygidium and abdomen are clothed with hairs similar to those on the elytra.[3]
References
- ^ BioLib
- ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Inanda gracilis 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 19, 2026.
- ^ a b 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 19, 2026. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.