Sericini is a tribe of scarab beetles in the family
Scarabaeidae
The family Scarabaeidae, as currently defined, consists of over 30,000 species of beetles worldwide; they are often called scarabs or scarab beetles. The classification of this family has undergone significant change in recent years. Several sub ...
. There are at least 100 described species in Sericini.
Members of this tribe can be identified using their
mouthparts, specifically their three-jointed labium and asymmetric maxillae.
Genera
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Maladera''
Mulsant & Rey, 1871
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Nipponoserica''
Nomura, 1973
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Serica
Serica (, grc, Σηρικά) was one of the easternmost countries of Asia known to the Ancient Greek and Roman geographers. It is generally taken as referring to North China
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MacLeay, 1819
References
* Bouchard, P., Y. Bousquet, A. Davies, M. Alonso-Zarazaga, J. Lawrence, C. Lyal, A. Newton, et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ''ZooKeys, vol. 88'', 1–972.
Further reading
* Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). ''American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea''. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida .
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* Richard E. White. (1983). ''Peterson Field Guides: Beetles''. Houghton Mifflin Company.
Melolonthinae
Beetle tribes
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