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Astaena minuta

species of beetle

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ137371058 ↗
Source-derived summary

Astaena minuta is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in Costa Rica.

Description

Adults reach a length of about 7-7.8 mm. They are reddish brown, with the head legs and posterior segments of the abdomen shiny and the pronotum, elytra, pygidium and venter of the thorax opaque. The elytra, pronotum, metasternum and anterior abdomen are lightly pruinose.

Etymology

The species name is derived from Latin minutus (meaning small) and refers to the small size of the males of this species.

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Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current 85-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Astaena, minuta and species is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Astaena minuta” 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.