Odontorrhina

Odontorrhina hispida are a slightly metallic bronze in colour, and their entire backs covered with short fulvous (tawny) or yellow hairs.[3][2] They grow roughly 18 mm long and 11 mm wide.[3]

Larvae of this species have been found with those of Ichnestoma coetzeri under Asteraceae or Rhamnaceae plants.[4] They are considered rare by collectors.[5]

Its range is more inland and eastern than other members of the genus Odontorrhina, and its habitat is primarily mountainous.[2]

Odontorrhina krigei is almost completely black in colour, including in most cases its bristles. This species appears to spend much of its adult life in or around termite mounds, where they also develop as grubs.[2][6] Like O. hispida, its range is more inland than other species, and it is restricted to more mountainous regions.[2]

Odontorrhina maraisi are bronze to black in colour on their backs and olive green to bronze on their undersides. Specimens differ from O. hispida in that their hairs are white instead of tawny or yellow, and from O. pubescens by their darker colouration. This species can grow between 17.5 and 22 mm long and between roughly 10 and 12 mm across.[2]

The species epithet, maraisi, is named after one Andre P. Marais, who lead observations of the species.[2]

O. pubescens are only lightly bristly on their backs, but densely so on their undersides. They are bronze-green in colour on their backs, and their legs are a bright green.[3] The species comprises two subspecies: O. p. hantam and O. p. pubescens. The former is restricted to higher-altitude habitat.[2]