Pasaphylla

Pasaphylla
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Scarabaeiformia
Family: Scarabaeidae
Subfamily: Melolonthinae
Tribe: Tanyproctini
Genus: Pasaphylla
Péringuey, 1904
Species:
P. libens
Binomial name
Pasaphylla libens
Péringuey, 1904

Pasaphylla is a genus of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is monotypic, being represented by the single species, Pasaphylla libens, which is found in South Africa (Northern Cape).

Description

Adults reach a length of about 17–21.5 mm (0.67–0.85 in). They are testaceous or light chestnut-brown, with the club of the antennae flavous, and the head, pronotum, scutellum and pectus clothed with a very dense and long flavous pubescence. The head is deeply and broadly punctured, the punctures nearly contiguous, and separated from each other by a sharp wall. The elytra are covered with fine irregularly disposed but somewhat closely set punctures each bearing a minute greyish-fulvous appressed hair, the juxta-sutural stria is distinct only in the anterior part, and there are two dorsal very faint costules on each side. The propygidium is covered with fine punctures each bearing a fine, short, appressed flavescent hair and the pygidium is also clothed with a short, appressed pubescence.

References

  1. ↑ Global Biodiversity Information Facility
  2. ↑ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Pasaphylla libens 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 (2025-10-10 XR). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Catalogue of Life Foundation. Retrieved April 9, 2026.
  3. 1 2 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 9, 2026. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.