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Harpina vittigera

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

Description

Adults reach a length of about . They are black and moderately shining. The head is very closely scabroso-punctate and the pronotum has deep scattered punctures each bearing a stiff erect cilia, and among these are spread a few greyish appressed hairs. The elytra have on each side two distinct costae and four bands of appressed, squamose, greyish-white hairs, in the first three intervals there is a line of single hairs, but between the third band and the supra-marginal one the hairs are more numerous. The pygidium, abdomen, and legs have similar appressed whitish hairs.

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