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Triodontella modesta

species of beetle

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ14861636 ↗
Source-derived summary

Triodontella modesta is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in Namibia.

Description

Adults reach a length of about 9 mm. They are testaceous, with the head and prothorax redder, covered with short appressed hairs, not sufficiently dense, however, to impart to it a sericeous appearance.

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This entry incorporates text from “Triodontella modesta” 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.