| Pygopleurus vulpes | |
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| Pygopleurus vulpes, male and female. Museum specimen | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Glaphyridae |
| Genus: | Pygopleurus |
| Species: | P. vulpes |
| Binomial name | |
| Pygopleurus vulpes (Fabricius, 1781) | |
Pygopleurus vulpes is a species of beetles from the Glaphyridae family. [1]
Pygopleurus vulpes can reach a length of 12–14 millimetres (0.47–0.55 in). [2] 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. [3] In the females the pronotum is greenish and the brown elytrae remain visible. [4]
This species is present in Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, North Macedonia, Romania, Russia and Ukraine. [5]