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Serica sericea
Species
Serica sericea
Classification
Kingdom
Animalia (Animals)
Phylum
Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum
Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class
Insecta (Insects)
Order
Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder
Polyphaga
Superfamily
Scarabaeoidea
Family
Scarabaeidae (Scarab Beetles)
Subfamily
Melolonthinae (May Beetles and Junebugs)
Tribe
Sericini
Genus
Serica
Species
sericea
(Serica sericea)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Serica sericea
(Illiger)
Orig. Comb:
Melolontha sericea
Illiger, 1802
Numbers
~110 spp. n. of Mex.
(
1
)
Size
9 mm
(
2
)
Identification
"Color deep chestnut, surface velvety and opaque but in shifting lights showing a very brilliant metallic sheen of rainbow colors."
(
2
)
Not strongly setose on head or pronotum.
Range
WA-FL-QC-NT
(
2
)
Works Cited
1.
Checklist and Nomenclatural Authority File of the Scarabaeoidea of the Nearctic Realm. Version 4.
Andrew B. T. Smith. 2009. Electronically published, Ottawa, Canada. 97 pp.
2.
New species of Serica (Scarabaeidae). V.
Dawson, R. 1932. Journal of the New York entomological Society 30: 154-169.
Contributed by
v belov
on 11 May, 2009 - 2:05pm
Additional contributions by
Bbarnd
,
Mike Quinn
Last updated 22 May, 2014 - 2:57pm