Stripsipher zebra

{{Short description|Species of beetle}} {{Speciesbox | image = Stripsipher_zebra.jpg | image_caption = | image2 = | image2_caption = | genus= Stripsipher | species = zebra | authority = Gory & Percheron, 1833 | synonyms = *''Stripsipher niger'' <small>Gory & Percheron, 1833</small> }} ''''' Stripsipher zebra''''', the '''zebra wood chafer''', is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.<ref>[https://www.gbif.org/species/1077952 Global Biodiversity Information Facility]</ref> It is found in South Africa (Western Cape).<ref name=":1">{{cite web |last= Schoolmeesters|first= P.|date= 2025|title= ''Stripsipher zebra'' at Catalogue of Life|url=https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/532FZ|website= World Scarabaeidae Database (version 2025-10-07). In O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D. R. Hernández Robles, C. A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, T. Pape, D. Hobern, S. Garnett, H. Little, R. E. DeWalt, J. Miller, T. Orrell, & R. Aalbu, Catalogue of Life (2026-01-16).|location= Amsterdam, Netherlands|publisher= Catalogue of Life Foundation|access-date=May 12, 2026}}</ref><ref name=":2" />

== Description == Adults reach a length of about {{cvt|13-15|mm}}. The head is black, with the clypeus flavous or maculated with black. The pronotum is flavous and has two broad black bands and one small black patch surrounding the lateral impression. The elytra are flavous, with a longitudinal humeral broad fuscous band which coalesces more or less regularly with a post-median one reaching from side to side, and connected along the outer margin which is broadly infuscate, also along the discoidal part and along the suture with an apical, equally broad band. The flavous space is thus reduced to a sub-diagonal band reaching from the humeral part to the middle, a sub-humeral, supra-marginal transverse patch, and two similar supra-apical ones, but as often as not the fuscous or black bands impinge more and more on the flavous part, and the whole body, with the exception of the antennae, which remain flavescent, is black.<ref name=":2">{{cite journal|last1=Péringuey|first1=L.|date= 1904|title= Descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa (Lucanidae and Scarabaeidae).|url= https://dn790009.ca.archive.org/0/items/transactionsofso13roya/transactionsofso13roya.pdf|journal=Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society|volume=13|issue=1|pages= 1–293|access-date= May 12, 2026}} {{pd-notice}}</ref> Many specimens belonging to both sexes are entirely black (var. ''niger'').<ref name=":3">{{cite journal|last1=Ricchiardi|first1=E.|date= 1998|title= Notes for the revision of the genus Stripsipher Gory & Percheron, 1833, with descriptions of four new species (Coleoptera, Cetoniidae, Trichiinae, Trichiini).|url= https://archive.org/download/biostor-103458/biostor-103458.pdf|journal=Mitteilungen Der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft|volume=88|issue=|pages= 45-64|access-date= May 12, 2026}}</ref>

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Category:Beetles described in 1833 Category:Beetles of South Africa Category:Stripsipher