Maladera saginata

Maladera saginata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Scarabaeiformia
Family: Scarabaeidae
Genus: Maladera
Species:
M. saginata
Binomial name
Maladera saginata
(Brenske, 1899)
Synonyms
  • Autoserica saginata Brenske, 1899

Maladera saginata is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in Malaysia.[2][3]

Description

Adults reach a length of about 8.3 mm. They are short, rounded oval, dull, brown and opalescent. The clypeus is very broad, large, tapering, narrowly smooth behind the anterior margin, then strongly densely wrinkled-punctate. The frons is shiny behind the suture, strongly punctate, with a distinct setate puncture in the corner of the eye. The convex pronotum is short, scarcely projecting anteriorly in the middle, rounded at the sides with broadly rounded posterior angles. The elytra are irregularly densely punctate in the striae. The punctures arranged in rows are less conspicuous and of the same size as the others. The pygidium is tapered.[3]

References

  1. ^ BioLib
  2. ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Maladera (Maladera) saginata at Catalogue of Life". World Scarabaeidae Database (version 2025-10-07). In O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D. R. Hernández Robles, C. A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, T. Pape, D. Hobern, S. Garnett, H. Little, R. E. DeWalt, J. Miller, T. Orrell, & R. Aalbu, Catalogue of Life (2026-01-16). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Catalogue of Life Foundation. Retrieved February 17, 2026.
  3. ^ a b Brenske, E. (1899). "Die Serica-Arten der Erde. II. Monographisch bearbeitet". Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift. 43: 205–404. Retrieved February 17, 2026. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.