Sericini

Tribe of beetles

Sericini

Serica brunnea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Coleoptera
Family:  | Scarabaeidae
Subfamily:  | Melolonthinae
Tribe:  | Sericini
Kirby, 1837

Sericini is a tribe of scarab beetles in the family Scarabaeidae. There are at least 100 described species in Sericini.[1][2] Members of this tribe can be identified using their mouthparts, specifically their three-jointed labium and asymmetric maxillae.[3]

## Genera[edit]

* Maladera Mulsant & Rey, 1871
* Nipponoserica Nomura, 1973
* Serica MacLeay, 1819

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Sericini Tribe Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
2. ^ "Sericini Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
3. ^ Frings, Jujinga; Lago, Paul; Ahrens, Dirk (23 November 2019). Bradler, Sven (ed.). "Morphology of mouthparts poorly resolves the phylogeny of Sericini chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)". Zoologischer Anzeiger: 53–65. doi:10.1016/j.jcz.2019.11.008. Retrieved 23 March 2021.

* 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[edit]

* 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 ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
* Ross H. Arnett (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1.
* Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q20721904
* Wikispecies: Sericini
* AFD: Sericini
* BioLib: 8069
* BugGuide: 41313
* CoL: L8C
* Fossilworks: 284561
* iNaturalist: 322170
* ITIS: 926271
* NZOR: 6e301f6c-f022-4587-87ba-457b0d1a727c

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