Serica porcula

Serica porcula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Scarabaeiformia
Family: Scarabaeidae
Genus: Serica
Species:
S. porcula
Binomial name
Serica porcula
Casey, 1884

Serica porcula is a species of scarab beetle in the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in North America[1][2][3] (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Wyoming).[4]

Description

Adults reach a length of about 7 mm. They are dark reddish brown, with the legs and under surface slightly paler. They are shining throughout, but not iridescent and glabrous above. The pronotum is finely and somewhat irregularly punctate, but narrowly impunctate along the middle. The scutellum is as wide as long, triangular and acutely rounded at the tip. It is punctate except broadly along the middle. The elytra are at base as wide as the pronotum, widest at two-thirds the length from the base. The sides are very feebly arcuate. The longitudinal costae are very feeble, broadly convex, impunctate and polished, the intervals much narrower, finely and very irregularly punctate. The punctures are round and rather feebly impressed.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Serica porcula Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  2. ^ "Serica porcula". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  3. ^ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Serica (Serica) porcula 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 December 24, 2025.
  4. ^ Brenske, E. (1902). "Die Serica-Arten der Erde. (Schluss)" (PDF). Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift. 47: 1–82. Retrieved February 6, 2026. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

Further reading

  • Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2006). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 3: Scarabaeoidea - Scirtoidea - Dascilloidea - Buprestoidea - Byrrhoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-30914-2.