| Korisaba | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Subfamily: | Melolonthinae |
| Tribe: | Hopliini |
| Genus: | Korisaba Péringuey, 1902 |
| Species: | K. amabilis
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| Binomial name | |
| Korisaba amabilis Péringuey, 1902
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Korisaba is a genus of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.1 It is monotypic, being represented by the single species, Korisaba amabilis, which is found in South Africa (Cape).2
Description
Adults reach a length of about 5.25 mm (0.207 in). They are black, densely clothed with long, greyish and black hairs on the upper, and with greyish-white ones on the under sides. The scutellum is clothed with white hairs.3
References
References
- BioLib
- Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Korisaba amabilis at Catalogue of Life". 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 (2025-10-10 XR). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Catalogue of Life Foundation. Retrieved March 5, 2026.
- Péringuey, L. (1902). "Descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa (Lucanidae and Scarabaeidae), Sub-families: Rutelinae, Hopliinae". Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 12: 561–920. Retrieved March 5, 2026. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.