Tamnoserica Brenske, 1899

Ahrens, Dirk, 2007, Type species designations of Afrotropical Ablaberini and Sericini genera (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae), Zootaxa 1496, pp. 53-62 : 60

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6248379
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scientific name	Tamnoserica Brenske, 1899
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Tamnoserica Brenske, 1899: 237 : Brenske 1900: 55; Machatschke 1959: 744.

Type species (here designated): Omaloplia (Emphania) mutans Blanchard, 1850 (this species was chosen because Brenske (1900) stated that the description of the genus was based on it).

First subsequently included nominal species: The name Tamnoserica was made available ( ICZN 1999, Art. 12.1) by Brenske (1899) in a key to genera, without any nominal species included. The following species were the first subsequently included species by Brenske (1900): Omaloplia (Emphania) mutans Blanchard, 1850 ; Omaloplia (Emphania) laevigata Blanchard, 1850 ; and Omaloplia (Emphania) lucidula Blanchard, 1850 .

Type material examined ( Tamnoserica mutans [ Blanchard, 1850]): Lectotype (here designated): ɗ " O. mutans Cat. Mus. Madagascar / Museum Paris Madagascar Goudot 1834 / Omaloplia mutans Blanch ex typis / Brsk. I.98. vid. / pumila Brm. = mutans Bl. " ( MNHN). Paralectotypes: 1 ɗ "4177 34 / O. mutans Cat. Mus. Madagascar / Museum Paris Madagascar Goudot 1834 " ( MNHN), 1 ɗ "4177 34 / Museum Paris Madagascar Goudot 1834 / Omaloplia mutans " ( MNHN).