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Heterochelus chiragricus

Heterochelus chiragricus is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in South Africa (Cape).

Description

Adults reach a length of about . Males are similar to Heterochelus podagricus, but the scutellum is not scaly and the elytra are more attenuate laterally towards the apex, and they have a broad juxta-sutural band of yellow scales reaching from the base to the apex where it unites with a marginal one of nearly the same width. The propygidium and pygidium are glabrous.

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