Psilonychus deridens is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.Global Biodiversity Information Facility It is found in South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal) and Zimbabwe.
Description Adults reach a length of about . Males are dark bronze-green and moderately shining, while females are testaceous-red. The antennae are piceous in males, red, with the club infuscated in females. The head has a fairly distinct clypeal raised line in both sexes, and the head and clypeus are clothed with long, greyish hairs in males and are without any scale, but with some squamiform hairs in females. The elytra have four rows of not very closely set, white, elongated scales, broadly interrupted two or three times. The edge of the propygidium, pygidium and abdomen are clothed with denser and slightly longer scales.
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