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Maladera aureola

species of beetle

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ14859067 ↗
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Maladera aureola is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in China (Chongqing, Guangdong, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Shandong), Japan, North Korea, South Korea and Taiwan.

Description

Adults reach a length of about 6.7–9 mm. They have a yellowish brown, oblong-oval body. They are dull (although the labroclypeus is shiny) and have a few long setae on the head, pronotum and elytra.

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This entry incorporates text from “Maladera aureola” 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.