Platychelus hottentotus is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.BioLib It is found in South Africa (Cape).
Description Adults reach a length of about . They have the same shape and sculpture as Platychelus unguiculatus, but somewhat more robust. The pronotum is somewhat metallic green, but the elytra have not only along the suture a broad band of very dense and somewhat long, lanceolate appressed white hairs, but the long impression along the humeral callus is filled with a band of similar hairs. The scutellum is densely hairy, and the hairs are white. The appressed hairs on the pygidium are white in both sexes.
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