Beetles · Insects · South Africa · Terrestrial

Purple predatory chafer (Campsiura cognata)

Purple predatory chafer on a small tree in front of the farm house. The Walsingham Farm, Port Alfred, Eastern Cape (2024). A member of the predatory chafers, in the tribe Cremastocheilini. General body obovate, slightly convex, darkly blood-red or chestnut, shiny. Antennae cadaneous.Head black with yellow triangular pattern on the clypeus and frons. Pro-thorax sub-smooth,… Continue reading Purple predatory chafer (Campsiura cognata)