The Serbaninae are a highly modified subfamily of

Pentatomidae Pentatomidae is a family of insects belonging to the order Hemiptera, generally called shield bugs or stink bugs. Pentatomidae is the largest family in the superfamily Pentatomoidea, and contains around 900 genera and over 4700 species.Robert G ...

, containing only a single known species, ''Serbana borneensis''. It is known from very few specimens, from

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and

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, and was originally described in the family

Phloeidae Phloeidae is a family of true bugs belonging to the order Hemiptera Hemiptera (; ) is an order (biology), order of insects, commonly called true bugs, comprising over 80,000 species within groups such as the cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, lea ...

, a group known only from

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, then later reclassified as a pentatomid.

References

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