Pygopleurus vulpes | |
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Pygopleurus vulpes, male and female. Museum specimen | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Glaphyridae |
Genus: | Pygopleurus |
Binomial name | |
P. vulpes (Fabricius, 1781) |
Pygopleurus vulpes is a species of beetles from the Glaphyridae family.
Pygopleurus vulpes can reach a length of 12–14 millimetres (0.47–0.55 in). The males of these beetles are completely covered by long hairs. They do not show variability of integuments and setae, but their color ranges from the common straw-yellow color to reddish and dark orange color. In the females the pronotum is greenish and the brown elytrae remain visible.
This species is present in Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Russia and Ukraine.