Tetraserica sejugata (Brenske, 1898) Brenske, 1898

Fabrizi, Silvia, Dalstein, Vivian & Ahrens, Dirk, 2019, A monograph on the genus Tetraserica from the Indochinese region (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Sericini), ZooKeys 837, pp. 1-155 : 87-89

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.837.32057

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4A188229-3580-4DB7-B122-9F131F6A0AC8

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3095BA0B-2CC6-E122-3E40-B29778F6D15A

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scientific name

Tetraserica sejugata (Brenske, 1898)
status

comb. n.

Tetraserica sejugata (Brenske, 1898) comb. n. Figures 38, 50

Serica sejugata Brenske, 1898: 323.

Type material examined.

Syntype: 1 ♂ "H.te Birmanie Mines des Rubis 1200_2300 m Doherty 1890/ ♂/ E. brenske 1896/ sejugata Type Brsk./ Museum Paris ex Coll. R. Oberthur/ Type" (MNHN).

Additional material examined.

1 ♂ "H.te Birmanie Mines des Rubis 1200_2300 m Doherty 1890/ Museum Paris ex Coll. R. Oberthur/ 120 Sericini Asia spec." (MNHN), 1 ♂ "H.te Birmanie Mines des Rubis 1200_2300 m Doherty 1890/ Museum Paris ex Coll. R. Oberthur" (MNHN), 1 ♂ "Birmah Rubymse / Doherty/ Fry Coll. 1905-100" (NHMUK).

Redescription.

Length of body: 8.4 mm; length of elytra: 6.2 mm; maximum width: 4.9 mm. Surface of labroclypeus and disc of frons glabrous. Smooth area anterior to eye twice as wide as long. Eyes small, ratio of diameter/interocular width: 0.59. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/ 1.44. Metatibia long and moderately wide, ratio width/length: 1/ 3.54; basal group of dorsal spines of metatibia at first third of metatibial length.

Aedeagus: Fig. 38 I–K. Habitus: Fig. 38L.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Melolonthidae

Tribe

Sericini

Genus

Tetraserica