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A new scarab beetle species of the endemic Madagascan genus Triodontus Westwood, T. hanskii sp. n., is described from a specimen collected in Southern Madagascar. The new species differs from similar Triodontus species with two medial pronotal tubercles and simple last abdominal sternite in a distinctive shape of the parameres. The type specimen of the new species originates from the southernmost remnant of indigenous rain forest of the island.
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Original Russian Text © A.V. Frolov, 2010, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2010, Vol. 89, No. 4, pp. 835–839.
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Frolov, A.V. A new species of the genus Triodontus (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Orphninae) from Southern Madagascar. Entmol. Rev. 90, 1031–1034 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873810080087
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