Microserica pusilla
| Microserica pusilla | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Microserica |
| Species: | M. pusilla
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| Binomial name | |
| Microserica pusilla (Thunberg, 1818)
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Microserica pusilla is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in Indonesia (Java, Sumatra), Malaysia and Thailand.[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 4-5 mm. They are dull, without opalescent luster, but silky-glossy and with faint tomentum. The underside is dark brownish-green silky-glossy. Above with a green head, green pronotum with a yellow base, and yellow, more or less broadly finely edged elytra, on which sometimes the yellow, sometimes the dark colour predominates.[4]
Taxonomy
The type locality given by Thunberg in 1818 (Cape of Good Hope) was later determined to be erroneous. The confusion between Cape and Java is not very unlikely, since these two ports on the East India route are the two main places where Thunberg collected on his trip abroad, staying in Cape for three years 1772–1775 and in Batavia for one month in 1775.[3]
References
- ^ BioLib
- ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Microserica pusilla at Catalogue of Life". World Scarabaeidae Database (version 2025-10-07). In O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D. R. Hernández Robles, C. A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, T. Pape, D. Hobern, S. Garnett, H. Little, R. E. DeWalt, J. Miller, T. Orrell, & R. Aalbu, Catalogue of Life (2025-10-10 XR). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Catalogue of Life Foundation. Retrieved November 7, 2025.
- ^ a b Ahrens, Dirk; Fabrizi, Silvia; Nikolajev, K.; Knechtges, L.; Eberle, J. (2019). "On the identity of some taxa of Sericinae described by C. P. Thunberg and L. Gyllenhal (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae)" (PDF). Bonn Zoological Bulletin. 68 (1): 21–29. Retrieved November 7, 2025. This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
- ^ Brenske, E. (1899). "Die Serica-Arten der Erde. III" (PDF). Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift. 44: 161–272. Retrieved February 10, 2026. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.