Peritrichia nitidipennis is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.BioLib It is found in South Africa (Western Cape).
Description Adults reach a length of about . They are black, with the elytra reddish brown or flavescent. The head and pronotum are clothed with very long flavous or yellow hairs, mixed with occasional black ones, but with the latter less numerous. The scutellum is covered with very long yellow or flavescent hairs, mixed also with a fewer dark ones.
Subspecies Peritrichia nitidipennis nitidipennis (Western Cape) Peritrichia nitidipennis transiens Schein, 1959 (Western Cape) Peritrichia nitidipennis tulbaghina Péringuey, 1902 (Western Cape)
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