Pasaphylla is a genus of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.Global Biodiversity Information Facility It is monotypic, being represented by the single species, Pasaphylla libens, which is found in South Africa (Northern Cape).
Description Adults reach a length of about . They are testaceous or light chestnut-brown, with the club of the antennae flavous, and the head, pronotum, scutellum and pectus clothed with a very dense and long flavous pubescence. The head is deeply and broadly punctured, the punctures nearly contiguous, and separated from each other by a sharp wall. The elytra are covered with fine irregularly disposed but somewhat closely set punctures each bearing a minute greyish-fulvous appressed hair, the juxta-sutural stria is distinct only in the anterior part, and there are two dorsal very faint costules on each side. The propygidium is covered with fine punctures each bearing a fine, short, appressed flavescent hair and the pygidium is also clothed with a short, appressed pubescence.
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