Heterochelus mucronatus is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.BioLib It is found in South Africa (Northern Cape).
Description Adults reach a length of about . They are fully black and somewhat shining. The elytra have a narrow and somewhat indistinct band of squamose greyish hairs, and the apical margin of the elytra has a few golden-yellow scales. The propygidium and abdominal segments have dense golden-yellow scales, and the pygidium is also scaly, but has a hairless, median longitudinal space. The head and pronotum are clothed with a dense, somewhat long, dark pubescence.
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