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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Scarabaeoidea » Scarab Beetles (Scarabaeidae) » May Beetles and Junebugs (Melolonthinae) » Sericini » Serica
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Maladera castaena - Serica
Copyright © 2010 Bruce Getty

Maladera castaena - Serica
TX SR 82W, Lamar County, Texas, USA
May 15, 2010
Size: 7.5mm
Collected in roadside net sweep while traveling west on TX 82 between Texarkana, TX
and Hugo, OK. det. B. Mathison, 2010. Initial data entry for TX.

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Maladera castaena - Serica Maladera castaena - Serica
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Contributed by Bruce Getty on 2 August, 2010 - 9:49am
Last updated 2 August, 2010 - 3:47pm

Moved
Moved from Asiatic Garden Beetle. You almost have to pull the genitalia to ID the vast majority of these to species.
… Phillip Harpootlian, 2 August, 2010 - 3:47pm login or register to post comments

I'm skeptical
Just looks like a run of the mill Serica sp. to me - was ID done with actual specimen?
… Phillip Harpootlian, 2 August, 2010 - 9:58am login or register to post comments

 
ID
Yes, He looked at the specimen in hand, under his scope. If these
submissions are going to cause a problem between you experts, I will
withdraw them.
… Bruce Getty, 2 August, 2010 - 11:15am login or register to post comments

 
Don't do that
If he actually saw the specimen, good enough for me. Such discordance of opinions should never be a problem [should in fact be encouraged] on Bugguide - IDs from photos are often tough and EVERYONE make mistakes. I'd like to think we're all grown ups [big kids] here.

So keep the submissions coming!
… Phillip Harpootlian, 2 August, 2010 - 11:25am login or register to post comments

 
ID
Did I ID this? I know I looked at several sericines for you when you swung by, and I don't remember them individually, but this does not look like Serica to me. The tibia look too narrow (Maladera has broad, flared-out hind tibiae). If I did ID this, than yeah I made a boo-boo (Sorry :).

Come to think of it I don't remember anything from TX. Texas would've sent up a red flag, as I am pretty sure M. castanea is not that far west (yet).
… Blaine Mathison, 2 August, 2010 - 3:19pm login or register to post comments

 
Oops
I meant to say 'does not look like Maladera'...it does look like Serica. But, it looks like my point was understood :-)
… Blaine Mathison, 2 August, 2010 - 4:28pm login or register to post comments

 
Glad you chimed in
It just didn't look right ... moved to Serica
… Phillip Harpootlian, 2 August, 2010 - 3:51pm login or register to post comments

 
yup... too skinny for a Maladera, etc.
NB: Mathison, not 'Maithson' (name misspelled here and elsewhere in your remarks)
… v belov, 2 August, 2010 - 10:43am login or register to post comments

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