''Trichostetha'' (Greek 'hairy' + 'chest') is a genus of
beetle
Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...
in the
scarab beetle
The family Scarabaeidae, as currently defined, consists of over 30,000 species of beetles worldwide; they are often called scarabs or scarab beetles. The classification of this family has undergone significant change in recent years. Several sub ...
family. It is endemic to southern Africa, and its species most commonly occur in mountainous terrain.
The genus includes several species that have only recently been described, as well as many species lacking a description of any of the larval stages. Except for
''T. fascicularis'' and its subspecies, the species comprising ''Trichostetha'' have small ranges of distribution, frequently in the
Cape Floral Region of
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...
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Species and subspecies
The genus ''Trichostetha'' includes the following species and subspecies:Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...
, 1758)
**''Trichostema capensis capensis'' (Linnaeus, 1767)
**''Trichostema capensis hottentotta'' (Gory & Percheron, 1833)
**''Trichostema capensis oweni'' Allard, 1992
*'' Trichostetha coetzeri'' Holm & Marais, 1988
*'' Trichostetha curlei'' Perissinotto, Šípek & Ball, 2014
*'' Trichostetha dukei'' Holm & Marais, 1988
*'' Trichostetha fascicularis'' (Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...
, 1767)
**''Trichostetha fascicularis maraisi'' Stobbia, 1995
**''Trichostetha fascicularis natalis'' Burmeister, 1842
**''Trichostetha fascicularis nigripennis'' Allard, 1992
**''Trichostetha fascicularis prunipennis'' Burmeister, 1842
*'' Trichostetha fuscorubra'' (Voet, 1779)
*'' Trichostetha hawequas'' Holm & Perissinotto, 2004
*'' Trichostetha mimetica'' Devecis, 1997
*'' Trichostetha potbergensis'' Holm & Perissinotto, 2004
*'' Trichostetha signata'' (Fabricius, 1775)
**''Trichostema signata signata'' (Fabricius, 1775)
**''Trichostema signata tibialis'' Burmeister, 1842
References
Beetles of Africa
Insects of South Africa
Cetoniinae
Taxa named by Hermann Burmeister
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