Neoserica rhodesiana
| Neoserica rhodesiana | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Neoserica |
| Species: | N. rhodesiana
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| Binomial name | |
| Neoserica rhodesiana (Péringuey, 1904)
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Neoserica rhodesiana is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is found in South Africa (North West) and Zimbabwe.[2][3]
Description
Adults reach a length of about 8-9.75 mm. They are brownish-red with a fleshy tinge, a sericeous appearance, and a sub-opaline sheen. The club of the antennae of the males is long, but shorter than the head, and flavous. The prothorax is very faintly punctate, while the scutellum is closely punctate. The elytra are costulate with the costules somewhat raised, or moderately plane, the punctures very shallow and somewhat indistinct, but each bearing a minute greyish hair, the series of longer and very remote hairs on the alternate costules are usually obliterated on the disk, but can still be traced on the sides.[3]
References
- ^ BioLib
- ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Neoserica (Autoserica) rhodesiana 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 January 7, 2026.
- ^ a b Péringuey, L. (1904). "Descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa (Lucanidae and Scarabaeidae)" (PDF). Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 13 (1): 1–293. Retrieved January 7, 2026. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.