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Astaena andina

species of beetle

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ14855139 ↗
Source-derived summary

Astaena andina is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in Ecuador.

Description

Adults reach a length of about 9 mm. The upper and lower surfaces are uniformly reddish-brown. The upper surface of the head is moderately finely and fairly evenly punctate, while the pronotum is densely and finely punctate with a smooth median line. The elytra have rows of punctures.

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“Astaena andina” enters the record as species of beetle. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Astaena, andina and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Astaena andina” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.