identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
AE7687EAFFBBFFADFF4359EBFA08F87B.text	AE7687EAFFBBFFADFF4359EBFA08F87B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica MacLeay 1819	<div><p>Serica MacLeay, 1819</p> <p>Serica MacLeay, 1819: 146.</p> <p>Trichoserica Reitter, 1896: 181</p> <p>(type species by original designation: Trichoserica fulvopubens Reitter, 1896); synonymized by Nomura 1972: 110.</p> <p>Ophthalmoserica Brenske, 1897: 395</p> <p>(type species by subsequent designation: Serica thibetana Brenske, 1897: 395; Ahrens 1999); synonymized by Nomura 1972: 110.</p> <p>Podoserica Breit, 1912: 202</p> <p>(type species by monotypy: Podoserica reitteri Breit, 1912: 202); synonymized by Ahrens 2005: 3.</p> <p>Type species: Serica brunnea (Linnaeus, 1758) (by monotypy).</p> <p>Taxonomic revision and new species</p> <p>Key to subgenera and species groups of Serica in framework of the genera of Sericini with tri-lamellate antennal club occurring in continental South-East Asia (♂♂):</p> <p>1 Base of pronotum with marginal line. Hypomeron not carinate...................... Archaehomaloplia Nikolajev, 1982</p> <p>- Base of pronotum without marginal line.................................................................... 2</p> <p>2 Protibia with three teeth................................................................................ 3</p> <p>- Protibia with two teeth................................................................................. 4</p> <p>3 Body unicolored: blackish, brown or reddish brown........................................ Maladera sinica group</p> <p>- Body bicolored. Antennal club in male composed of four antennomeres........................ Trioserica Moser, 1922</p> <p>4 Hypomeron carinate................................................................................... 8</p> <p>- Hypomeron not carinate................................................................................ 5</p> <p>5 Antennal club in male composed of three antennomeres....................................................... 6</p> <p>- Antennal club in male composed of four antennomeres................................... Tetraserica Ahrens, 2004</p> <p>6 Body elongate, dark or light brown, mostly dull. Antennal club in male long. Apex of metatibia shallowly or sharply truncate.................................................................... 7</p> <p>- Body short, yellowish brown, shiny...................................................... Maladera haba group</p> <p>7 Dorsal surface with at least a few short setae on pronotum and elytra........................... Serica MacLeay, 1819</p> <p>- Dorsal surface generally glabrous, rarely with a few short setae on pronotum and elytra...................................................................................................... Nipponoserica Nomura, 1973 (part)</p> <p>8 Antennal club in male composed of three antennomeres....................................................... 9</p> <p>- Antennal club in male composed of more than three antennomeres........other multi-lamellate genera (not included here) 2‡</p> <p>9 Legs narrow and long (ratio width/length: 1/3.3–4.6)........................................................ 10</p> <p>- Legs not narrow and short to moderately long (ratio width/length: 1/2.5–3)...................................... 12</p> <p>10 Parameres asymmetrical. Metacoxa glabrous except lateral or microscopic setae................................... 11</p> <p>- Parameres symmetrical. Metacoxa evenly covered with adjacent fine setae.................... Xenoserica Ahrens, 2005</p> <p>11 Dorsal surface almost completely glabrous..................................... Nipponoserica Nomura, 1973 (part)</p> <p>- Dorsal surface generally with numerous setae and widely dull................. Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) (part)</p> <p>12 Metafemur without serrated line adjacent to the anterior margin............................................... 13</p> <p>- Metafemur with a serrated line adjacent to the anterior margin..................................................................................................... Maladera Mulsant &amp; Rey, 1871, Amiserica Nomura, 1974 *</p> <p>13 Mesostermum not produced anteriorly between mesocoxae................................................... 14</p> <p>- Mesostermum produced anteriorly between mesocoxae, protuding....................... Hoplomaladera Nomura, 1974</p> <p>14 Apex of metatibia sharply truncate at interior apex near tarsal articulation............................................................................................ Maladera (subgenus Hemiserica Brenske, 1894) (part, India)</p> <p>- Apex of metatibia bluntly truncate or concavely emarginate at interior apex near tarsal articulation.................... 15</p> <p>15 Dorsal posterior margin of metafemur serrate. Legs generally slender........................................... 16</p> <p>- Dorsal posterior margin of metafemur smooth................................ Maladera Mulsant &amp; Rey, 1871 (part) 4*</p> <p>16 Parameres narrow and symmetric....................................................................... 17</p> <p>- Parameres asymmetric................................................................................ 18</p> <p>17 Body reddish brown and shiny. Metatarsi not carinate laterally. Carina of hypomeron not ventrally produced.......................................................................................... Maladera brunnescens group</p> <p>- Body dark brown, dull. Metatarsi carinate laterally. Carina of hypomeron ventrally produced............................................................................................... Gastromaladera Nomura, 1973 (Japan)</p> <p>‡ For further details, see Liu et al. (2019)</p> <p>* For further details, see Fabrizi et al. (2021)</p> <p>18 Anterior angles of pronotum not produced, obsolete. Dorsal surface with dense pilosity, often composed by white scale-like setae.......................................................................... Pachyserica Brenske, 1897</p> <p>- Anterior angles of pronotum not obsolete, blunt to sharp..................................................... 19</p> <p>19 Hypomeron weakly carinate............................................ Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) (part)</p> <p>- Hypomeron distinctly carinate.......................................................................... 20</p> <p>20 Mentum convexly elevated anteriorly..................................................................... 21</p> <p>- Mentum flat, with a semi-circular ridge anteriorly................................... Trichomaladera Nomura, 1974</p> <p>21 Dorsal and ventral surface densely setose. (Antennal club generally longer then remaining antennomeres combined.)..... 22</p> <p>- Dorsal and ventral surface sparsely setose. (Antennal club as long as or shorter than remaining antennomeres combined.)........................................................................ Maladera Mulsant &amp; Rey, 1871 (part) *</p> <p>22 Dorsal pilosity simple, dorsal surface always shiny........................................ Paraserica Reitter, 1896</p> <p>- Dorsal pilosity double, composed of long and short setae, dorsal surface always at largest extent dull...................................................................................... Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) (part)</p> <p>Key to the species of Serica (sensu lato) of continental South-East Asia (♂♂):</p> <p>1 Dorsal surface unicolored............................................................................... 2</p> <p>- Dorsal surface, particularly elytra, multi-colored............................................................ 25</p> <p>2 Dorsal surface brown and glabrous........................................................................ 3</p> <p>- Dorsal surface darker and generally with erect setae on dorsal surface........................................... 12</p> <p>3 Body reddish to dark brown. Antennal club at least twice as long as remaining antennomeres combined................. 4</p> <p>- Body yellowish brown.Antenna with 9 antennomeres; Antennal club at maximum 1.5 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined........................................................................................... 8</p> <p>4 Metatibia long and narrow, ratio width/ length: 1/ 4.2. Antenna with 10 antennomeres............................... 5</p> <p>- Metatibia long and little wider, ratio width/ length: 1/ 3.7...................................................... 6</p> <p>5 Metatibia long and narrow, ratio width/ length: 1/ 4.2. Apex of the phallobase strongly bent (lateral view).............................................................................................. S. solivaga (Brenske, 1898)</p> <p>- Metatibia moderately long and wide, ratio width/ length: 1/3.2. Apex of the phallobase more straight (lateral view).................................................................. S. mengsonana Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>6 Antenna with 9 antennomeres. Antennal club 5 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined. Basal lobe of the right paramere wide and large....................................................... S. fashengi Liu &amp; Ahrens, 2014</p> <p>- Antenna with 10 antennomeres. Antennal club 4 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined. Basal lobe of the right paramere narrower.................................................................................... 7</p> <p>7 Right paramere narrower, without blunt dorsomedian extension, sharply pointed towards apex (lateral view). Dorsal lobe of left paramere reflexed externally................................................ S. falcifera Ahrens &amp; Fabrizi, 2009</p> <p>- Right paramere wider, with a blunt dorsomedian extension, moderately pointed towards apex (lateral view). Dorsal lobe of left paramere reflexed internally......................................................... S. segregata Arrow, 1946</p> <p>8 Dorsal surface dull. Phallobase at right side with an apical lateral apophyses laterally............................... 9</p> <p>- Dorsal surface shiny. Phallobase at right side without apical lateral apophyses laterally............................................................................................ S. longwan Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>9 Basal lobe of left paramere extended only basomedially...................................................... 10</p> <p>- Basal lobe of left paramere extended basomedially and distally................................ S. longula Frey, 1972</p> <p>10 Basal lobe of left paramere strongly curved and directed distally...... S. tiammushan Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>- Basal lobe of left paramere directed medially.............................................................. 11</p> <p>11 Antennal club distinctly longer than remaining antennomeres combined. Right paramere moderately angled dorsally.................................................................. S. daqiaoana Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>- Antennal club distinctly as long as remaining antennomeres combined. Right paramere strongly angled dorsally..................................................................... S. jiankouensis Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>12 Labroclypeus distinctly emarginated medially.............................................................. 13</p> <p>- Labroclypeus weakly emarginated medially............................................................... 15</p> <p>13 Dorsal surface shiny. Aedeagus in apical half dorsoventrally flattened........................... S. excisa (Frey, 1972)</p> <p>- Dorsal surface dull. Aedeagus in apical half almost spherical in cross-section..................................... 14</p> <p>14 Labroclypeus deeply emarginated medially. Lateral margin of pronotum slightly concave........................................................................................ S. shiduensis Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>- Labroclypeus moderately emarginated medially. Lateral margin of pronotum straight............ S. klapperichi Frey, 1972</p> <p>15 Body more oval, pronotum subequal a third of elytral length................................................... 16</p> <p>- Body elongate, pronotum subequal a quarter of elytral length................................................. 17</p> <p>16 Antennal club in male long, three times as long as remaining antennomeres combined. Parameres with distinct basal lobes....................................................... S. huangbaiyuanensis Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>- Antennal club in male short, as long as remaining antennomeres combined. Parameres without distinct basal lobes................................................................ S. guangnanensis Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>17 Parameres at maximum almost subequal to half phallobase length. Species from Northern Myanmar.. S. lupina Arrow, 1946</p> <p>- Parameres distinctly shorter............................................................................ 18</p> <p>18 Parameres at maximum subequal to one third of phallobase length.............................................. 19</p> <p>- Parameres at maximum subequal to a quarter or less of phallobase length........................................ 21</p> <p>19 Right paramere curved ventrally (lateral view), without preapical lateral tooth.................................... 20</p> <p>- Right paramere straight (lateral view), with sharp and distinct preapical lateral tooth.................................................................................................. S. yini Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>20 Dorsal surface of body densely setose. Left paramere more or less straight, distinctly shorter than right one...................................................................... S. baishuitaiensis Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>- Dorsal surface of body sparsely setose. Left paramere strongly curved and bent ventrally below ventral portion of phallobase, almost as long as right paramere.................................. S. paralupina Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>21 Apex of right paramere sharply pointed............................ S. gaoligong Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>- Apex of right paramere rounded or bluntly truncate......................................................... 22</p> <p>22 Dorsal pilosity dense. Right paramere almost straight........................................................ 23</p> <p>- Dorsal pilosity sparse................................................................................. 24</p> <p>23 Left paramere weakly curved...................................... S. nanhua Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>- Left paramere strongly curved..................................... S. longipes Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>24 Right paramere strongly curved. Left paramere wide, flattened in cross section over almost two thirds of its entire length.............................................................. S. allolongipes Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>- Right paramere weakly curved. Left paramere narrow and sickle-shaped, almost circular in cross section over almost its entire length.................................................... S. paralongipes Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>25 Parameres inserted strongly asymmetric, left paramere much more basally than the right one......................... 26</p> <p>- Phallobase rather symmetric, parameres inserted almost at the same level........................................ 34</p> <p>26 Right paramere with a narrow basal lobe directed medially................................................... 28</p> <p>- Right paramere without a narrow basal lobe directed medially. Phallobase narrowed towards apex (dorsal view)......... 27</p> <p>27 Phallobase concavely excised dorsoapically.............................................. S. dathei Ahrens, 2005</p> <p>- Phallobase with a process-like median extension at mesoapical margin. Antennal club 1.2 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined........................................... S. dissimillima Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>28 Phallobase truncate apex (dorsal view), its dorsal margin straight. Antennal club 1.5 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined........................................................................................... 29</p> <p>- Phallobase concavely excised dorsoapically............................................................... 30</p> <p>29 Left paramere more than half as long as the right........................ S. zhenba Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>- Left paramere less than half as long as the right...................................... S. nanjiangana Ahrens, 2005</p> <p>30 Right paramere very long and narrow, sharply pointed. Left paramere without any lateral tooth.. S. trapezicollis Ahrens, 2005</p> <p>- Right paramere moderately long and wider, rounded at apex................................................... 31</p> <p>31 Left paramere ca one third of the length of the right one...................................................... 32</p> <p>- Left paramere more than half of the length of the length of the right one......................................... 33</p> <p>32 Right paramere abruptly narrowed behind middle. Left paramere dorsoventrally not flattened.......................................................................................... S. jani Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>- Right paramere evenly narrowed towards apex. Left paramere dorsoventrally flattened............................................................................................. S. jaroslavi Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>33 Left paramere in distal portion with a lateral tooth........................................ S. albisetis Ahrens, 2005</p> <p>- Left paramere without lateral apical tooth, but its left paramere having its dorsomedial tooth at basal third....................................................................... S. shengtangshan Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>34 Aedeagus robust, with a long double dorsal phallobasal process which exceeds almost parameres.... S. adspersa Frey, 1972</p> <p>- Aedeagus elongate, without dorsal phallobasal process, but simply concavely emarginate between parameres........... 35</p> <p>35 Elytral surface with moderately dense to dense setae........................................................ 36</p> <p>- Elytral surface with sparse setae......................................................................... 37</p> <p>36 Pilosity of dorsal surface double, with at least two types of setae. Elytra with a large dark spot before apex....................................................................................... S. nigroguttata group (see below)</p> <p>- Pilosity of dorsal surface simple, with one type of setae only. Elytra without dark spot before apex. Metasternum anteriorly abruptly and strongly elevated.................................................... S. velutina group (see below)</p> <p>37 Parameres both subdivided into a long dorsal and ventral lobe. Metafemur, submarginal serrated line beside anterior margin present or absent............................................... Serica (subgenus Taiwanoserica Nomura, 1974)</p> <p>- Parameres not subdivided into a long dorsal and ventral lobe, or only one of both subdivided into a long dorsal and ventral lobe. Metafemur, submarginal serrated line beside anterior margin always absent...................................... 38</p> <p>38 Pronotum almost glabrous, with a few adpressed setae on posterior disc; surface evenly plane, in anterior part shiny, posteriorly dull. Frons shiny in anterior half..................................... S. ziqingi Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>- Pronotum densely setose on anterior disc, surface with shallow transverse impressions, entirely dull or iridescent shiny. Frons entirely dull......................................................................................... 39</p> <p>39 Pronotum narrow. Body more elongate. Parameres shorter, left one, half as long as the right............................................................................................. S. jirii Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>- Pronotum more transverse. Body oblong and less convex. Parameres long, both of the same length.................................................................................. S. pangwa Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFBBFFADFF4359EBFA08F87B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFFB6FFA0FF4359EBFD1EFED6.text	AE7687EAFFB6FFA0FF4359EBFD1EFED6.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica longula G. Frey 1972	<div><p>Serica longula Frey, 1972</p> <p>Figures 1A–D, 22</p> <p>Serica longula Frey, 1972: 165.</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♀ “Kuatun (2300 m) 27,40 n.Br. 117,40 ö. L. J. Klapperich 11.4. 1938 (Fukien)/ Type Serica longula G. Frey 1972 ” (ZMFK). Paratype: 1 ♀ “Kuatun (2300 m) 27,40 n.Br. 117,40 ö. L. J. Klapperich 12.5. 1938 (Fukien)/ Type Serica longula G. Frey 1972 ” (ZMFK).</p> <p>Additional material examined. 1 ♂ “Chine 28.VII.46 Kuatun, Fukien leg. Tscheng-Sen ” (MHNG), 2 ♂♂ “ Kuatun, Fukien China, 15.6.46 leg. Tschung-Sen / ex. coll. V. Balthasar National Museum Prague, Czech Republic ” (NMPC), 1 ♂, 1 ♀ “ Kuatun (2300 m) 27, 40 n.Br. 117,40 ö.L. J. Klapperich 11.5. 1938 (Fukien)” (NMPC), 1 ♂ “ Kuatun (2300 m) 27, 40 n.Br. 117,40 ö.L. J. Klapperich 11.4. 1938 (Fukien)” (NMPC), 1 ♂ “ Kuatun (2300 m) 27, 40 n.Br. 117,40 ö.L. J. Klapperich 30.4. 1938 (Fukien)” (NMPC), 1 ♂ “ Kuatun (2300 m) 27, 40 n.Br. 117,40 ö.L. J. Klapperich 8.5. 1938 (Fukien)” (NMPC), 1 ♀ “ Kuatun (2300 m) 27, 40 n.Br. 117,40 ö.L. J. Klapperich 29.5. 1938 (Fukien)” (NMPC), 1 ♀ “ Kuatun (2300 m) 27, 40 n.Br. 117,40 ö. L. J. Klapperich 26.5. 1938 (Fukien)” (NMPC), 1 ♂ “ China: Fukien 06.V.1938 leg. Klapperich ZFMK Bonn” (ZFMK), 1 ♂ “San’gang, Mt. Wuyishan, Fujian, 16- 21.Ⅴ.2004, leg. Yuan Caixia, Lijing ” (HBUM), 1 ♂ “ Huangxizhou, Mt. Wuyishan, Fujian, 27.Ⅴ.2004, leg. Yuan Caixia, Lijing ” (HBUM).</p> <p>Redescription (male). Length: 8.2 mm, length of elytra: 6.4 mm, width: 4.6 mm. Body elongate, dorsal face yellow and dull, glabrous, abdomen brown, antenna yellow.</p> <p>Labroclypeus subtrapezoidal, little wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins weakly convex and moderately convergent to moderately rounded anterior angles, lateral margin and ocular canthus producing a blunt angle, margins moderately reflexed; anterior margin distinctly emarginate medially; surface flat, finely and densely punctate, with a few long, erect setae anteriorly; frontoclypeal suture weakly impressed and angled medially; smooth area in front of eye approximately twice as wide as long; ocular canthus short and fine (1/4 of ocular diameter), very finely sparsely punctate, with a terminal seta. Frons with fine, dense punctures, dull toment anteriorly weaker, glabrous except for a few setae beside eyes. Eyes moderately large, ratio of diameter/interocular width: 0.62. Antenna composed of 9 antennomeres, club with three antennomeres, straight, 1.1 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined. Mentum anteriorly elevated and flattened.</p> <p>Pronotum transverse and subtrapezoidal, widest at base, lateral margins evenly and weakly convex, weakly convergent anteriorly; anterior angles moderately produced and rectangular; posterior angles blunt, moderately rounded at tip; anterior margin weakly convex, marginal line widely interrupted medially; basal margin without marginal line; surface finely and densely punctate, glabrous; anterior and lateral margins without setae. Scutellum wide, triangular, with coarse and moderately dense punctures, glabrous.</p> <p>Elytra oblong, widest at posterior quarter, striae distinctly impressed, finely and densely punctate; intervals weakly convex, with fine, moderately dense punctures concentrated along striae; odd intervals with a few fine, erect, short setae, otherwise glabrous; epipleural margin robust, ending at strongly rounded external apical angle of elytra, epipleura sparsely setose, apical border membraneous, with a rim of microtrichomes.</p> <p>Ventral surface dull, metasternum and metacoxa with large and dense punctures, almost completely glabrous; metacoxa glabrous except for a several long setae laterally. Abdominal sternites, in addition to generally distributed fine and moderately dense punctures, each with a distinct transverse row of coarse punctures each bearing a short and robust seta, otherwise glabrous; penultimate sternite apically with a shiny smooth short chitinous border and a wide transversal shallow impression at middle. Mesosternum between mesocoxae narrower than mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/1.19. Pygidium convex, yellow but dull, with fine, moderately dense punctures and a few longer setae on apical half.</p> <p>Legs moderately wide and long; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and moderately densely punctate; metafemur dull, anterior margin acute, lacking an adjacent serrated line, posterior ventral margin straight, not widened in apical half, entirely serrate, dorsal margin also serrate, finely setose. Metatibia moderately wide and long, widest at apex, ratio width/length: 1/3.8, dorsally sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal one shortly before middle, apical one at four fifths of metatibial length; in basal half with a few punctures and short fine spines; lateral face longitudinally convex, with moderately dense and coarse punctures, glabrous; ventral margin serrate, with two widely distant spines; medial face finely sparsely punctate and with sparse short setae, apex interiorly near tarsal articulation shallowly concave. Tarsomeres irregularly partly coarsely punctate dorsally, ventrally with sparse, short setae; metatarsomeres with a strongly serrated ridge ventrally and a smooth subventral longitudinal carina; first metatarsomere ventrally glabrous, little longer than following tarsomere and almost twice as long as dorsal tibial spur. Protibia moderately long, bidentate. All claws symmetrical, feebly curved and long, with normally developed basal tooth.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 1A–C. Habitus: Fig. 1D.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFB6FFA0FF4359EBFD1EFED6	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFFB4FFA1FF4358CBFF45FD1A.text	AE7687EAFFB4FFA1FF4358CBFF45FD1A.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica tianmushan Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2022	<div><p>Serica tianmushan Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>Figures 1E–H, 21</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “ Mts. Tianmushan, Zhejiang, 8.VI.1964, 1200m, leg. Chen Tailu / LW-153” (IZAS). Paratypes: 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀ “ Mts. Gutianshan, Zhejiang, 1-4.V.2010, 446- 715m, leg. Liu Chongling, No. G 24ha- 16/ LW-915” (IZAS), 1 ♂ “ China Zhejiang Prov. <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=118.13333&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=29.233334" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 118.13333/lat 29.233334)">Kaihua Co. Mt.</a> Gutian alt. 400-500m 29°14’N, 118°08’E 19-VI- 2013 Yu Y,-M leg. ” (SNUC), 1 ♂ “ China: Zhejiang, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=118.14&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=29.25" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 118.14/lat 29.25)">Gutianshan</a> NNR. 2010, CSP 14, 639m 118.14°E, 29.25°N local collector” (NME), 1 ♂ “ China: Zhejiang, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=118.16&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=29.25" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 118.16/lat 29.25)">Gutianshan</a> NNR. 2010, CSP 10, 670m 118.16°E, 29.25°N local collector” (NME), 1 ♀ “ China: Zhejiang, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=118.13&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=29.21" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 118.13/lat 29.21)">Gutianshan</a> NNR. 2010, CSP 24, 366m 118.13°E, 29.21°N local collector” (NME), 1 ♀ “ China: Zhejiang, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=118.13&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=29.25" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 118.13/lat 29.25)">Gutianshan</a> NNR. 2010, local collector/ CSP15: 2010 618m 118.13°E, 29.25°N ” (NME), 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀ “ China: Zhejiang, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=118.14&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=29.27" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 118.14/lat 29.27)">Gutianshan</a> NNR 2010, CSP 11, 647m 118.14°E, 29.27°N ” (NME, ZFMK).</p> <p>Description of the holotype. Length: 8.8 mm, length of elytra: 6.5 mm, width: 4.6 mm. Body elongate, dorsal face yellow and dull, glabrous, abdomen brown, antenna yellow.</p> <p>Labroclypeus subtrapezoidal, little wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins weakly convex and moderately convergent to moderately rounded anterior angles, lateral margin and ocular canthus producing a blunt angle, margins moderately reflexed; anterior margin distinctly emarginate medially; surface convex, finely and densely punctate, with a few long, erect setae anteriorly; frontoclypeal suture weakly impressed and angled medially; smooth area in front of eye approximately twice as wide as long; ocular canthus short and fine (1/4 of ocular diameter), very finely sparsely punctate, with a terminal seta. Frons with fine, dense punctures, dull toment anteriorly weaker, glabrous except for a few setae beside eyes. Eyes moderately large, ratio of diameter/interocular width: 0.6. Antenna composed of 9 antennomeres, club with three antennomeres, straight, 1.1 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined. Mentum anteriorly elevated and flattened.</p> <p>Pronotum transverse and subtrapezoidal, widest at base, lateral margins evenly and weakly convex, weakly convergent anteriorly; anterior angles moderately produced and rectangular; posterior angles blunt, moderately rounded at tip; anterior margin weakly convex, fine marginal line complete medially; basal margin without marginal line; surface finely and densely punctate, glabrous; anterior and lateral margins without setae. Scutellum wide, triangular, with fine and sparse punctures, glabrous.</p> <p>Elytra oblong, widest at posterior quarter, striae distinctly impressed, finely and densely punctate; intervals weakly convex, with fine, moderately dense punctures concentrated along striae; odd intervals with a few fine, erect, short setae, otherwise glabrous; epipleural margin robust, ending at strongly rounded external apical angle of elytra, epipleura sparsely setose, apical border membraneous, with a rim of microtrichomes.</p> <p>Ventral surface dull, metasternum and metacoxa with large and dense punctures, almost completely glabrous; metacoxa glabrous except for a several long setae laterally. Abdominal sternites, in addition to generally distributed fine and moderately dense punctures, each with a distinct transverse row of coarse punctures each bearing a short and robust seta, otherwise glabrous; penultimate sternite apically with a shiny smooth short chitinous border and a wide transversal shallow impression at middle. Mesosternum between mesocoxae narrower than mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/1.37. Pygidium moderately convex, yellow but dull, with fine, moderately dense punctures and a few longer setae on apical half.</p> <p>Legs moderately wide and long; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and moderately densely punctate; metafemur dull, anterior margin acute, lacking an adjacent serrated line, posterior ventral margin straight, not widened in apical half, entirely serrate, dorsal margin also serrate, finely setose. Metatibia moderately wide and long, widest at apex, ratio width/length: 1/3.8, dorsally sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal one at middle, apical one at four fifths of metatibial length; in basal half with a few punctures and short fine spines; lateral face longitudinally convex, with moderately dense and coarse punctures, glabrous; ventral margin serrate, with two widely distant spines; medial face finely sparsely punctate and with sparse short setae, apex interiorly near tarsal articulation shallowly concave. Tarsomeres irregularly partly coarsely punctate dorsally, ventrally with sparse, short setae; metatarsomeres with a strongly serrated ridge ventrally and a smooth subventral longitudinal carina; first metatarsomere ventrally glabrous, little shorter than following two tarsomeres combined and almost twice as long as dorsal tibial spur. Protibia moderately long, bidentate. All claws symmetrical, feebly curved and long, with normally developed basal tooth.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 1E–G. Habitus: Fig. 1H.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Serica tianmushan Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species differs from the very similar Serica longula Frey, 1972 by the shape of parameres: the left paramere has a large arched basal lobe, the right paramere is compacter and shorter.</p> <p>Etymology. The name of the new species (noun in apposition) is derived from its type locality Tianmushan.</p> <p>Variation. Length: 8.6–8.9 mm, length of elytra: 6.0– 6.6 mm, width: 4.2–4.9 mm. Head, pronotum and scutellum in some specimens greenish yellow. Female: antennal club short, little shorter than remaining antennomeres combined; pygidium strongly evenly convex; eyes little smaller than in male, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.55.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFB4FFA1FF4358CBFF45FD1A	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFFB5FFA6FF435B87FBF1FCA6.text	AE7687EAFFB5FFA6FF435B87FBF1FCA6.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica longwang Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2022	<div><p>Serica longwang Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>Figures 1I–M, 21</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “ China: Zhejiang, Anji <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=119.44056&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=30.399721" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 119.44056/lat 30.399721)">County</a> Longwang Shan, parking square to Dianmufeng, 30°23’59’’N, 119°26’26’’E, 1300-1450m, 14.v.2013, C.-C. Dai &amp; X.-B. Song leg./ 1107 Asia Sericini spec. ” (SNUC). Paratype: 1 ♂ “ China: S. Zhejiang, Qingyuan Mt. nr. <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=119.189445&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=27.827223" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 119.189445/lat 27.827223)">Liyang village</a>, 27°49’38’’N, 119°11’22’’E, leaf litter, sifted, 29.iv.2014 990-1160m, Peng, Song, Yan &amp; Yu leg.” (ZFMK).</p> <p>Description of the holotype. Length: 9.2 mm, length of elytra: 7.2 mm, width: 5.4 mm. Body elongate, dorsal and ventral face yellowish brown, dorsal face shiny and glabrous, antenna yellow.</p> <p>Labroclypeus subtrapezoidal, little wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins convex and convergent to moderately rounded anterior angles, lateral margin and ocular canthus producing a blunt angle, margins moderately reflexed; anterior margin distinctly emarginate medially; surface convex, coarsely and densely punctate, with a few long, erect setae anteriorly; frontoclypeal suture weakly impressed and angled medially; smooth area in front of eye approximately twice as wide as long; ocular canthus moderately long and narrow (1/3 of ocular diameter), coarsely densely punctate, with a terminal seta. Frons with fine, dense punctures, completely shiny, glabrous except for a few setae beside eyes. Eyes moderately large, ratio of diameter/interocular width: 0.68.Antenna composed of 9 antennomeres, club with three antennomeres, strongly reflexed, three times as long as remaining antennomeres combined. Mentum anteriorly elevated and flattened.</p> <p>Pronotum transverse and subtrapezoidal, widest at base, lateral margins in basal two thirds straight and weakly convergent anteriorly, anteriorly more convex; anterior angles moderately produced and rectangular, strongly rounded in the tip; posterior angles blunt; anterior margin convex, robust marginal line complete medially; basal margin without marginal line; surface coarsely and densely punctate, glabrous; anterior and lateral margins with short sparse setae. Scutellum wide, triangular, with fine and dense punctures, glabrous, basal midline impunctate.</p> <p>Elytra oblong, widest at posterior quarter, striae distinctly impressed, finely and densely punctate; intervals weakly convex, with fine, moderately dense punctures concentrated along striae; intervals glabrous; epipleural margin robust, ending at strongly rounded external apical angle of elytra, epipleura sparsely setose; apical border chitinous, without a rim of microtrichomes.</p> <p>Ventral surface dull, metasternal disc and abdominal sternites except the last one shiny; metasternum and metacoxa with large and dense punctures, almost completely glabrous; metacoxa with several long setae laterally. Abdominal sternites, in addition to generally distributed fine and moderately dense punctures, each with a distinct transverse row of coarse punctures each bearing a short and robust seta, otherwise glabrous; ultimate sternite with a few long additional setae. Mesosternum between mesocoxae narrower than mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/1.12. Pygidium moderately convex, yellow shiny, with fine, moderately dense punctures, along the apical margin dull and with a few short setae.</p> <p>Legs moderately wide and long; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and moderately densely punctate; metafemur shiny, anterior margin acute, lacking an adjacent serrated line, posterior ventral margin straight, not widened in apical half, entirely serrate, dorsal margin also serrate, finely setose. Metatibia moderately wide and long, widest at apex, ratio width/length: 1/3.8, dorsally sharply carinate, with only one distal group of spines, basal one reduced to a single robust seta at the middle of metatibial length, apical one at four fifths of metatibial length; in basal half with a short fine spines in row; lateral face longitudinally convex, with a few sparse and coarse punctures, glabrous; ventral margin serrate, with three long setae of which distal two are more distant; medial face coarsely densely punctate and slightly rugose, glabrous; apex interiorly near tarsal articulation bluntly truncate. Tarsomeres irregularly sparsely and finely coarsely punctate dorsally, ventrally with sparse, short setae; metatarsomeres with a strongly serrated ridge ventrally and a smooth subventral longitudinal carina; metatarsomeres ventrally glabrous, first metatarsomere little longer than following tarsomere and little longer then dorsal tibial spur. Protibia moderately long, bidentate. All claws symmetrical, feebly curved and long, with sharply pointed basal tooth.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 1I–L. Habitus: Fig. 1M. Female unknown.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Serica longwang Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species differs from the very similar Serica longula Frey, 1972 and all other species of the Serica sensu lato assemblage by the lacking membraneous border of apical elytra, the competely shiny surface, shape of aedeagus: both parameres possess large basal lobes.</p> <p>Etymology. The name of the new species, Longwang (noun in apposition), is derived from its type locality Longwang Shan.</p> <p>Variation. Length: 9.0– 9.2 mm, length of elytra: 6.6–7.2 mm, width: 4.6–5.4 mm.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFB5FFA6FF435B87FBF1FCA6	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		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AE7687EAFFB2FFA4FF435A20FBF1FED6.text	AE7687EAFFB2FFA4FF435A20FBF1FED6.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica daqiaoana Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2022	<div><p>Serica daqiaoana Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>Figures 2A–D, 21</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “China-Guangdong, Dagiao env., 1000-1200m 24°54’N - 113°01’E, 1- 3.v.2002, Dr. R. Fencl lgt./ Coll. P. Pacholatko / 591 Sericini: Asia spec.” (CP). Paratype: 1 ♂ “ Mts. Dadongshan, Lianxian, Guangdong, 25.Ⅴ.1997, 1500-1700m, leg. Chen Zhenguang ” (LSSYU).</p> <p>Description of the holotype. Length: 8.9 mm, length of elytra: 6.6 mm, width: 4.8 mm. Body elongate, dorsal face yellow and dull, glabrous, ventral face, frons and anterior portion of pronotum brown, antenna yellow.</p> <p>Labroclypeus subtrapezoidal, little wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins weakly convex and moderately convergent to moderately rounded anterior angles, lateral margin and ocular canthus producing a blunt angle, margins moderately reflexed; anterior margin distinctly emarginate medially; surface flat, finely and densely punctate, with a few long, erect setae anteriorly; frontoclypeal suture weakly impressed and angled medially; smooth area in front of eye approximately twice as wide as long; ocular canthus short and fine (1/4 of ocular diameter), very finely sparsely punctate, with a terminal seta. Frons with fine, dense punctures, dull toment anteriorly weaker, glabrous except for a few setae beside eyes. Eyes moderately large, ratio of diameter/interocular width: 0.68. Antenna composed of 9 antennomeres, club with three antennomeres, straight, 1.3 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined. Mentum anteriorly elevated and flattened.</p> <p>Pronotum transverse and subtrapezoidal, widest at base, lateral margins in basal half almost straight, weakly convergent anteriorly, in anterior half convex and convergent; anterior angles moderately produced but sharp; posterior angles blunt, moderately rounded at tip; anterior margin weakly convex, marginal line complete medially; basal margin without marginal line; surface finely and densely punctate, with minute setae in punctures; anterior and lateral margins sparsely setose. Scutellum wide, triangular, with fine and dense punctures each bearing a minute seta, base at middle impunctate.</p> <p>Elytra oblong, widest at posterior quarter, striae distinctly impressed, finely and densely punctate; intervals weakly convex, with fine, moderately dense punctures concentrated along striae; lateral intervals with a few fine, erect, short setae, otherwise glabrous; epipleural margin robust, ending at strongly rounded external apical angle of elytra, epipleura sparsely setose, apical border membraneous, with a rim of microtrichomes.</p> <p>Ventral surface dull, metasternum and metacoxa with large and dense punctures, almost completely glabrous; metacoxa glabrous except for a several long setae laterally. Abdominal sternites, in addition to generally distributed fine and moderately dense punctures, each with a distinct transverse row of coarse punctures each bearing a short and robust seta, otherwise glabrous; penultimate sternite apically with a shiny smooth short chitinous border. Mesosternum between mesocoxae narrower than mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/1.21. Pygidium convex, yellow but dull, with fine, moderately dense punctures and a few longer setae on apical half.</p> <p>Legs moderately wide and long; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and moderately densely punctate; metafemur dull, anterior margin acute, lacking an adjacent serrated line, posterior ventral margin straight, not widened in apical half, entirely serrate, dorsal margin also serrate, finely setose. Metatibia moderately wide and long, widest at apex, ratio width/length: 1/4.0, dorsally sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal one at middle, apical one shortly behind three quarters of metatibial length; in basal half with a few punctures and short fine spines; lateral face longitudinally convex, with moderately dense and coarse punctures, glabrous; ventral margin serrate, with two widely distant spines; medial face finely sparsely punctate and with sparse short setae, apex interiorly near tarsal articulation shallowly concave. Tarsomeres irregularly partly coarsely punctate dorsally, ventrally with sparse, short setae; metatarsomeres with a strongly serrated ridge ventrally and a smooth subventral longitudinal carina; first metatarsomere ventrally glabrous, little longer than following tarsomere and almost twice as long as dorsal tibial spur. Protibia moderately long, bidentate. All claws symmetrical, feebly curved and long, with normally developed basal tooth.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 2A–C. Habitus: Fig. 2D. Female unknown.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Serica daqiaoana Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species differs from the rather similar Serica longula Frey, 1972 in shape of aedeagus: the phallobase is lacking the distal lateral processes on each side, while the parameres differ significantly in length; the right paramere is almost twice as long as the left having a long basal lobe.</p> <p>Etymology. The name of the new species (adjective in nominative case) is derived from its type locality Daqiao (Dagiao).</p> <p>Variation. Length: 8.9–9.1 mm, length of elytra: 6.6–7.4 mm, width: 4.8–5.3 mm.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFB2FFA4FF435A20FBF1FED6	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFFB0FFA5FF4358CAFE86FDAA.text	AE7687EAFFB0FFA5FF4358CAFE86FDAA.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica jiankouensis Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2022	<div><p>Serica jiankouensis Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>Figures 2E–H, 21</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “ China: NW Guizhou prov. Fanjingshan, 35 km N of Jiankou, 3-4 Jun 1996 1200m, Bolm lgt./ Coll. P. Pacholatko Invt. No. / 727 Sericini: Asia spec.” (CP).</p> <p>Description of the holotype. Length: 8.0 mm, length of elytra: 6.0 mm, width: 4.1 mm. Body elongate, dorsal face yellow and dull, glabrous, ventral face, frons and anterior portion of pronotum brown, antenna yellow.</p> <p>Labroclypeus subtrapezoidal, little wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins weakly convex and moderately convergent to moderately rounded anterior angles, lateral margin and ocular canthus producing a blunt angle, margins moderately reflexed; anterior margin distinctly emarginate medially; surface weakly convex, finely and densely punctate, with a few long, erect setae anteriorly; frontoclypeal suture weakly impressed and angled medially; smooth area in front of eye approximately twice as wide as long; ocular canthus short and fine (1/4 of ocular diameter), finely sparsely punctate, without a terminal seta. Frons with fine, dense punctures, dull toment anteriorly weaker, glabrous except for a few setae beside eyes. Eyes small, ratio of diameter/interocular width: 0.58. Antenna composed of 9 antennomeres, club with three antennomeres, straight, as long as remaining antennomeres combined. Mentum anteriorly elevated and flattened.</p> <p>Pronotum transverse and subtrapezoidal, widest at base, lateral margins evenly convex and convergent anteriorly; anterior angles moderately produced but sharp; posterior angles convex; anterior margin weakly convex, fine marginal line complete medially; basal margin without marginal line; surface finely and densely punctate, with minute setae in punctures; anterior and lateral margins sparsely setose. Scutellum wide, triangular, with fine and dense punctures each bearing a minute seta, base at middle impunctate.</p> <p>Elytra oblong, widest at posterior quarter, striae distinctly impressed, finely and densely punctate; intervals weakly convex, with fine, moderately dense punctures concentrated along striae; lateral intervals with a few fine, erect, short setae, otherwise glabrous; epipleural margin robust, ending at strongly rounded external apical angle of elytra, epipleura sparsely setose, apical border membraneous, with a rim of microtrichomes.</p> <p>Ventral surface dull, metasternum and metacoxa with large and dense punctures, almost completely glabrous; metacoxa glabrous except for a several long setae laterally. Abdominal sternites, in addition to generally distributed fine and moderately dense punctures, each with a distinct transverse row of coarse punctures each bearing a short and robust seta, otherwise glabrous; penultimate sternite apically with a shiny smooth short chitinous border. Mesosternum between mesocoxae narrower than mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/1.27. Pygidium strongly convex in apical half, yellow and dull, with fine, moderately dense punctures and a few longer setae on apical half.</p> <p>Legs moderately wide and long; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and moderately densely punctate; metafemur dull, anterior margin acute, lacking an adjacent serrated line, posterior ventral margin straight, not widened in apical half, entirely serrate, dorsal margin also serrate, finely setose. Metatibia moderately wide and long, widest at apex, ratio width/length: 1/4.0, dorsally sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal one at middle, apical one at four fifths of metatibial length; in basal half with a few punctures and short fine spines; lateral face longitudinally convex, with moderately dense and coarse punctures, glabrous; ventral margin serrate, with two widely distant spines; medial face finely sparsely punctate and with sparse short setae, apex interiorly near tarsal articulation shallowly concave. Tarsomeres irregularly partly coarsely punctate dorsally, ventrally with sparse, short setae; metatarsomeres with a strongly serrated ridge ventrally and a smooth subventral longitudinal carina; first metatarsomere ventrally glabrous, little longer than following tarsomere and one third of its length longer than dorsal tibial spur. Protibia moderately long, bidentate. All claws symmetrical, feebly curved and long, with normally developed basal tooth.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 2E–G. Habitus: Fig. 2H. Female unknown.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Serica jiankouensis Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species differs from the similar S. daqiaoana Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species in the shorter antennal club (male) and the shape of aedeagus: the phallobase is ventrally at apex more widened, the left paramere in S. jiankouensis Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species is slightly more compact, with the basal lobe distinctly shorter; the angle of the dorsal margin in the right paramere is more pronounced and the distal dorsal margin (lateral view) is concavely emarginated rather than straight as in S. daqiaoana Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species which has the angle of the dorsal margin more blunt; furthermore, the right paramere possesses in S. jiankouensis Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species a short and narrow basal lobe which is lacking in S. daqiaoana Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species.</p> <p>Etymology. The name of the new species (adjective in nominative case) is derived from its occurrence close to Jiankou.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFB0FFA5FF4358CAFE86FDAA	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFFB1FFBBFF435B17FD1EFBA2.text	AE7687EAFFB1FFBBFF435B17FD1EFBA2.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica klapperichi (Frey 1972)	<div><p>Serica klapperichi (Frey, 1972)</p> <p>Figures 3A–D, 22</p> <p>Trichoserica klapperichi Frey, 1972 a: 173.</p> <p>Serica klapperichi: Ahrens 2006b: 245; 2007b: 36, Ahrens &amp; Bezděk 2016: 311.</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “Kuatun 2300 m 27,40 n. Br. 117,40 ö. L. J. Klapperich 4.6.1938 (Fukien)/ Ophthalmoserica Type klapperichi G. Frey 1972 / Trichoserica klapperichi ” (ZFMK). Paratypes: 3 ♂♂, 1 ♀ “Kuatun 2300 m 27, 40 n. Br. 117,40 ö. L. J. Klapperich 14.6.1938 (Fukien)/ Paratype Ophthalmoserica klapperichi G. Frey 1972 ” (ZFMK, CF), 1 ♀ “Kuatun 2300 m 27, 40 n. Br. 117,40 ö. L. J. Klapperich 22.6.1938 (<a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-117.4&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=27.4" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -117.4/lat 27.4)">Fukien</a>)/ Paratype Ophthalmoserica klapperichi G. Frey 1972 / ♀ ” (ZFMK), 1 ♀ “Kuatun 2300 m 27, 40 n. Br. 117,40 ö. L. J. Klapperich 21.6.1938 (<a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-117.4&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=27.4" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -117.4/lat 27.4)">Fukien</a>)/ Paratype Ophthalmoserica klapperichi G. Frey 1972 / ♀ ” (ZFMK), 1 ♀ “Kuatun 2300 m 27, 40 n. Br. 117,40 ö. L. J. Klapperich 15.6.1938 (Fukien)/ Paratype Ophthalmoserica klapperichi G. Frey 1972 ” (CF).</p> <p>Additional material examined. 1 ♂ “ Chine 10.V.46 Kuatun, Fukien leg. Tschung-Sen ” (MHNG), 2 ex. “ <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-117.4&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=27.4" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -117.4/lat 27.4)">Kuatun</a> 2300 m 27, 40 n. Br. 117,40 ö. L. J. Klapperich 14.6.1938 (Fukien)/ ex. Coll. V. Balthasar Natinal Museum Prague, Czech Republic ” (NMPC), 1 ex. “ <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-117.4&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=27.4" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -117.4/lat 27.4)">Kuatun</a> 2300 m 27, 40 n. Br. 117,40 ö. L. J. Klapperich 21.6.1938 (Fukien)/ ex. Coll. V. Balthasar Natinal Museum Prague, Czech Republic ” (NMPC), 1 ex. “ Kuatun, Fukien China 24.5.46 (Tschung Sen.)/ ex. Coll. V. Balthasar Natinal Museum Prague, Czech Republic ” (NMPC), 1 ex. “ Kuatun, Fukien China 15.7.46 Tschung-Sen / ex. Coll. V. Balthasar Natinal Museum Prague, Czech Republic ” (NMPC), 1 ♂ “ Neicujiang, Longsheng, Guangxi, 6.VI. 1963, 840m, leg. Wang Shuyong ” (IZAS), 1 ♂ “ Mts. Tianpingshan, Huaping, Guangxi, 5.VI.1963, leg. Yang Jikun ” (CAU), 1 ♂ “ Mt. Tianpingshan, Longsheng, Guangxi, 24.VI.1982, leg. Wang Xinli ” (CAU), 1 ♂ “ Mt. Tianpingshan, Huaping, Guangxi, 5.VI.1982, leg. Yang Jikun ” (CAU).</p> <p>Redescription (holotype). Length: 7.4 mm, length of elytra: 5.1 mm, width: 4.4 mm. Body oval, dorsal face light reddish-brown and dull, elytra partly with iridescent shine, head shiny, with dense, erect, moderately long setae, antenna yellow.</p> <p>Labroclypeus subrectangular, little wider than long, widest at middle, lateral margins convex and moderately convergent the base and to moderately rounded anterior angles; lateral margin and ocular canthus producing a blunt angle, margins moderately reflexed; anterior margin distinctly emarginate medially; surface flat, finely and densely punctate, with dense, moderately long, erect setae; frontoclypeal suture weakly impressed and angled medially; smooth area in front of eye approximately twice as wide as long; ocular canthus short and fine (1/4 of ocular diameter), finely densely punctate, with 2–3 terminal setae. Frons with fine and coarse, dense punctures, with dense, moderately long, erect setae. Eyes moderately large, ratio of diameter/interocular width: 0.67. Antenna composed of 9 antennomeres, club with three antennomeres, strongly reflexed, twice as long as remaining antennomeres combined. Mentum anteriorly elevated and flattened.</p> <p>Pronotum subtrapezoidal, widest at base, lateral margins in basal half straight and subparallel, in anterior half strongly convex and convergent anteriorly; anterior angles weakly produced and blunt; posterior angles blunt; anterior margin weakly convex, marginal line widely interrupted medially; basal margin without marginal line; surface coarsely and densely punctate, with moderately long, erect setae mixed with short adpressed ones; anterior and lateral margins with dense setae. Hypomeron carinate, not produced ventrally. Scutellum wide, triangular, with coarse and moderately dense punctures, with short adpressed setae.</p> <p>Elytra oval, widest at middle, striae distinctly impressed, finely and densely punctate; intervals convex at middle, with fine, dense punctures concentrated along striae, on middle of interval almost impunctate; intervals with dense, moderately long setae being directed posteriorly; epipleural margin robust, ending before rounded external apical angle of elytra, epipleura densely setose, apical border chitinous, without a rim of microtrichomes.</p> <p>Ventral surface shiny along middle, dull at sides, metasternum and metacoxa with fine and moderately dense punctures, sparsely setose; metacoxa with fine adpressed setae, except for a several long setae laterally. Mesosternum between mesocoxae narrower than mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/1.63. Abdominal sternites, in addition to generally distributed fine and moderately dense punctures, each with a distinct transverse row of coarse punctures each bearing a short and robust seta, otherwise with fine dense setae; penultimate sternite apically without distinct chitinous border. Pygidium strongly convex, dull, with fine, dense punctures and dense, long setae.</p> <p>Legs moderately wide and short; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and moderately densely punctate; metafemur shiny, anterior margin acute, lacking an adjacent serrated line, posterior ventral margin straight, not widened in apical half, smooth, dorsal posterior margin also not serrate, finely setose. Metatibia moderately wide and short, widest at apex, ratio width/length: 1/2.8; dorsal margin sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal one at one third, apical one two thirds of metatibial length; basally with a few fine setae; lateral face longitudinally convex, with dense and coarse punctures, and moderately long setae in the punctures; ventral margin serrate, with three equidistant robust setae; medial face coarsely but sparsely punctate and with sparse minute setae in punctures, apex interiorly near tarsal articulation bluntly truncate and shallowly concave. Tarsomeres impunctate dorsally, ventrally with sparse, short setae; metatarsomeres ventrally glabrous, with a strongly serrated ridge ventrally and a smooth subventral longitudinal carina; first metatarsomere dorsally and laterally also moderately carinate, distinctly longer than following two tarsomeres combined and little longer than dorsal tibial spur. Protibia moderately long, bidentate, external margin bluntly extended medially.All claws symmetrical, feebly curved and long, with normally developed basal tooth.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 3A–C. Habitus: Fig. 3D.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFB1FFBBFF435B17FD1EFBA2	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFFAFFFB8FF435D1FFBF1FABE.text	AE7687EAFFAFFFB8FF435D1FFBF1FABE.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica shiduensis Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2022	<div><p>Serica shiduensis Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>Figures 3E–H, 22</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “ CH, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=108.60817&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=27.547167" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 108.60817/lat 27.547167)">Guizhou prov.</a>, ~ 650m, Jiangkou (ca 50km SW), 27°32.83’N 108°36,49’E, Shidu vill. Env., 29.vi.-6.vii.2001, C. Holzschuh leg./ 826 Sericini: Asia spec.” (CP). Paratypes: 2 ♂♂ “CH-Guizhou NE 27.V.-3.VI. 20km NW of Jiangkou, 1995 Fanjing Shan-Kuaichang E. Jendek &amp; O. Sausa leg./ Coll. P. Pacholatko Invt. No. / CS24/ 573 Sericini: Asia spec.” (CP, CA), 1 ♂ “Libo, Ⅴ.1995 ” (IZAS).</p> <p>Description of the holotype. Length: 7.1 mm, length of elytra: 4.8 mm, width: 4.1 mm. Body oval, dorsal face light reddish-brown and dull, head shiny, with dense, erect, moderately long setae, antenna yellow.</p> <p>Labroclypeus subrectangular, little wider than long, widest at middle, lateral margins convex and moderately convergent the base and to moderately rounded anterior angles; lateral margin and ocular canthus producing a blunt angle, margins moderately reflexed; anterior margin distinctly emarginate medially; surface flat, finely and densely punctate, with dense, moderately long, erect setae; frontoclypeal suture weakly impressed and angled medially; smooth area in front of eye approximately twice as wide as long; ocular canthus short and fine (1/4 of ocular diameter), finely densely punctate, with 2–3 terminal setae. Frons with fine and coarse, dense punctures, with dense, moderately long, erect setae. Eyes small, ratio of diameter/interocular width: 0.58. Antenna composed of 9 antennomeres, club with three antennomeres, strongly reflexed, twice as long as remaining antennomeres combined. Mentum anteriorly elevated and flattened.</p> <p>Pronotum subtrapezoidal, widest at base, lateral margins in basal half slightly concave and subparallel, in anterior half strongly convex and convergent anteriorly; anterior angles weakly produced and blunt; posterior angles blunt; anterior margin weakly convex, marginal line widely interrupted medially; basal margin without marginal line; surface coarsely and densely punctate, with moderately long, erect setae mixed with short adpressed ones; anterior and lateral margins with dense setae. Hypomeron carinate, not produced ventrally. Scutellum wide, triangular, with coarse and moderately dense punctures, with short adpressed setae.</p> <p>Elytra oval, widest at middle, striae distinctly impressed, finely and densely punctate; intervals convex at middle, with fine, dense punctures concentrated along striae, on middle of interval almost impunctate; intervals with dense, moderately long setae being directed posteriorly; epipleural margin robust, ending at rounded external apical angle of elytra, epipleura densely setose, apical border chitinous, without a rim of microtrichomes.</p> <p>Ventral surface dull, metasternum and metacoxa with fine and dense punctures, densely setose; metacoxa with fine, dense, adpressed setae, with numerous long setae laterally. Mesosternum between mesocoxae narrower than mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/1.49. Abdominal sternites, in addition to generally distributed fine and moderately dense punctures, each with a distinct transverse row of coarse punctures each bearing a short and robust seta, otherwise with fine dense setae; penultimate sternite apically without distinct chitinous border. Pygidium strongly convex, dull, with fine, dense punctures and dense, long setae.</p> <p>Legs moderately wide and short; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and moderately densely punctate; metafemur shiny, anterior margin acute, lacking an adjacent serrated line, posterior ventral margin straight, not widened in apical half, smooth, dorsal posterior margin also not serrate, finely setose. Metatibia moderately wide and short, widest at apex, ratio width/length: 1/3.0; dorsal margin sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal one at first quarter, apical one two thirds of metatibial length; basally with a few fine setae; lateral face longitudinally convex, with dense and coarse punctures, and moderately long setae in the punctures; ventral margin serrate, with three almost equidistant robust setae; medial face coarsely but sparsely punctate and with sparse minute setae in punctures, apex interiorly near tarsal articulation bluntly truncate and shallowly concave. Tarsomeres impunctate dorsally, ventrally with sparse, short setae; metatarsomeres ventrally glabrous, with a strongly serrated ridge ventrally and a smooth subventral longitudinal carina; first metatarsomere dorsally and laterally also moderately carinate, as long as following two tarsomeres combined and little longer than dorsal tibial spur. Protibia moderately long, bidentate, external margin bluntly extended medially. All claws symmetrical, feebly curved and long, with normally developed basal tooth.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 3E–G. Habitus: Fig. 3H. Female unknown.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Serica shiduensis Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species differs from the similar S. klapperichi Frey, 1972 by the more complete dull surface, the slightly concave lateral margin of pronotum, and the shape of aedeagus. The latter is characterized in Serica shiduensis Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species by the shorter and more ventrally positioned left lateral apical apophysis of phallobase which has a short median apophysis and dorsolateral right margin less extended, by the apically much more widened right paramere, and by the basal lobe of the right paramere being folded twice in the middle, while the one of S. klapperichi is folded only once.</p> <p>Etymology. The name of the new species (adjective in nominative case) is derived from its type locality, Shidu village.</p> <p>Variation. Length: 7.0– 7.1 mm, length of elytra: 4.8–5.1 mm, width: 4.1–5.3 mm.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFAFFFB8FF435D1FFBF1FABE	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFFACFFB9FF435C23FDEAF8C2.text	AE7687EAFFACFFB9FF435C23FDEAF8C2.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica excisa (Frey 1972)	<div><p>Serica excisa (Frey, 1972)</p> <p>Figures 3I–L, 23</p> <p>Trichoserica excisa Frey, 1972: 172.</p> <p>Serica excisa: Ahrens 2006b: 245, 2007b: 36; Ahrens &amp; Bezděk 2016: 311.</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “Kuatun (2300 m) 27,40 n. Br. 117,40 ö. L. J. Klapperich 11.5.1938 (Fukien)/ Type Ophthalmoserica excisa G. Frey 1972 ” (ZFMK) [aedeagus lost from attached cartoon]. Paratypes: 1 ♀ “Kuatun (2300 m) 27, 40 n. Br. 117,40 ö. L. J. Klapperich 11.5.1938 (Fukien)/ Paratype Ophthalmoserica excisa G. Frey 1972 ” (ZFMK), 1 ♂ “Kuatun (2300 m) 27, 40 n. Br. 117,40 ö. L. J. Klapperich 11.4.1938 (Fukien)/ Paratype Ophthalmoserica excisa G. Frey 1972 ” (ZFMK [specimen photographed]), 1 ♂, 1 ♀ “Kuatun (2300 m) 27, 40 n. Br. 117,40 ö. L. J. Klapperich 12.5.1938 (Fukien)/ Paratype Ophthalmoserica excisa G. Frey 1972 / Trichoserica excisa ” (CF), 1 ♂ “Kuatun (2300 m) 27, 40 n. Br. 117,40 ö. L. J. Klapperich 5.5.1938 (Fukien)/ Paratype Ophthalmoserica excisa G. Frey 1972 ” (ZFMK, CF), 5 ♂♂ “Kuatun (2300 m) 27, 40 n. Br. 117,40 ö. L. J. Klapperich 11.5.1938 (Fukien)/ Paratype Ophthalmoserica excisa G. Frey 1972 ” (ZFMK, CF).</p> <p>Additional material examined. 1 ex. “ Chine 26.V.46 Kuatun Fukien leg. Tschung-Sen” (MHNG), 1 ex. “ Chine 21.IV.46 Kuatun Fukien leg. Tschung-Sen” (MHNG), 1 ex. “ Chine 1.VI.46 Kuatun Fukien leg. TschungSen” (MHNG), 3 ex. “Kuatun, Fukien China 14.5.46 leg. Tschung-Sen ” (NMPC), 1 ex. “Kuatun, Fukien China 15.5.46 leg. Tschung-Sen ” (NMPC), 1 ex. “Kuatun, Fukien China 25.5.46 leg. Tschung-Sen ” (NMPC), 1 ex. “Kuatun (2300m) 27,40n.Br. 117,40o. L. J. Klapperich 11.4. 1938 (<a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-117.4&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=27.4" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -117.4/lat 27.4)">Fukien</a>)/ ex. Coll. V. Balthasar National Museum Prague, Czech Republic ” (NMPC), 1 ex. “Kuatun (2300m) 27,40n.Br. 117,40o. L. J. Klapperich 8.5. 1938 (<a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-117.4&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=27.4" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -117.4/lat 27.4)">Fukien</a>)/ ex. Coll. V. Balthasar National Museum Prague, Czech Republic ” (NMPC), 6 ex. “Kuatun (2300m) 27,40n.Br. 117,40o. L. J. Klapperich 11.5. 1938 (<a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-117.4&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=27.4" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -117.4/lat 27.4)">Fukien</a>)/ ex. Coll. V. Balthasar National Museum Prague, Czech Republic ” (NMPC), 1 ex. “Kuatun (2300m) 27,40n.Br. 117,40o. L. J. Klapperich 12.5. 1938 (<a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-117.4&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=27.4" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -117.4/lat 27.4)">Fukien</a>)/ ex. Coll. V. Balthasar National Museum Prague, Czech Republic ” (NMPC), 1 ex. “Ta-stien-Lou Chasseurs Thibetains 1896/ Museum Paris ex. Coll. R. Oberthur ” (MHNP), 1 ♂ “Guanping, Tongmuguan, Chong’an, Fujian, 22.V.1960, 800-900m, leg. Jiang Shengqiao ” (IZAS).</p> <p>Redescription of the holotype. Length: 6.2 mm, length of elytra: 4.5 mm, width: 3.6 mm. Body oval, dorsal face yellow and shiny, head and ventral surface dark brown, shiny, with dense, backwards-bent and moderately long setae, antenna yellow.</p> <p>Labroclypeus subrectangular, little wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins subparallel in basal half, anteriorly strongly convex and moderately convergent to strongly rounded anterior angles; lateral margin and ocular canthus producing a blunt angle, margins moderately reflexed; anterior margin deeply but narrowly emarginate medially; surface flat, finely and densely punctate, with dense, long, erect setae; frontoclypeal suture weakly impressed and angled medially; smooth area in front of eye approximately twice as wide as long; ocular canthus short and fine (1/4 of ocular diameter), finely densely punctate, with numerous setae. Frons with fine, dense punctures, with dense, long setae directed posteriorly. Eyes large, ratio of diameter/interocular width: 0.83. Antenna composed of 9 antennomeres, club with three antennomeres, strongly reflexed, 2.5 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined. Mentum anteriorly elevated and flattened.</p> <p>Pronotum subtrapezoidal, widest at base, lateral margins in basal half straight and subparallel, in anterior half strongly convex and convergent anteriorly; anterior angles weakly produced and blunt, well-rounded in the tip; posterior angles blunt; anterior margin weakly convex, marginal line fine but complete; basal margin without marginal line; surface finely and densely punctate, with long, backwards-directed setae mixed with short adpressed ones; anterior and lateral margins with dense setae. Hypomeron carinate, not produced ventrally. Scutellum wide, triangular, with coarse and dense punctures, with short adpressed setae.</p> <p>Elytra oval, widest at middle, striae distinctly impressed, finely and densely punctate; intervals flat, with fine, dense punctures; intervals with dense, long setae being directed posteriorly; epipleural margin robust, ending before rounded external apical angle of elytra, epipleura densely setose, apical border chitinous, without a rim of microtrichomes.</p> <p>Ventral surface shiny, metasternum and metacoxa with fine and dense punctures, densely finely setose; metacoxa with fine adpressed setae, except for a several long setae laterally. Mesosternum between mesocoxae narrower than mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/1.38. Abdominal sternites, in addition to generally distributed fine and moderately dense punctures, each with a distinct transverse row of coarse punctures each bearing a short and robust seta, otherwise with fine dense setae; penultimate sternite apically without distinct chitinous border. Pygidium moderately convex, shiny, with fine, dense punctures and dense, long setae.</p> <p>Legs moderately wide and long; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and moderately densely punctate; metafemur shiny, anterior margin acute, lacking an adjacent serrated line, posterior ventral margin straight, not widened in apical half, smooth, dorsal posterior margin also not serrate, finely setose. Metatibia moderately wide and long, widest at apex, ratio width/length: 1/3.4; dorsal margin sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal one at one third, apical one two thirds of metatibial length; basally with a few fine setae; lateral face longitudinally convex, with dense and coarse punctures, and moderately long setae in the punctures; ventral margin serrate, with four equidistant robust setae; medial face coarsely but sparsely punctate, glabrous; apex interiorly near tarsal articulation bluntly truncate. Tarsomeres impunctate dorsally, ventrally with sparse, short setae; metatarsomeres with a strongly serrated ridge ventrally and a smooth subventral longitudinal carina, laterally also moderately carinate; first metatarsomere distinctly shorter than following two tarsomeres combined and little longer than dorsal tibial spur. Protibia moderately long, bidentate, external margin bluntly extended medially. All claws symmetrical, feebly curved and long, with normally developed basal tooth.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 3I–K. Habitus: Fig. 3L.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFACFFB9FF435C23FDEAF8C2	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFFAAFFBCFF4359EBFCBCFDAA.text	AE7687EAFFAAFFBCFF4359EBFCBCFDAA.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica adspersa (Frey 1972) Ahrens & Fabrizi & Bai & Liu 2022	<div><p>Serica adspersa (Frey, 1972) new combination</p> <p>Figures 4A–D, 21</p> <p>Trichoserica adspersa Frey, 1972 a: 164.</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “Kuatun (2300 m) 27,40 n.Br. 117,40 ö. L. J. Klapperich 19.5. 1938 (Fukien)/ Type Serica adspersa G. Frey 1972 ” (ZMFK). Paratypes: 1 ♀ “Kuatun (2300 m) 27,40 n.Br. 117,40 ö. L. J. Klapperich 19.5. 1938 (Fukien)/ Paratype Serica adspersa G. Frey 1972 ” (ZMFK), 1 ♀ “Kuatun (2300 m) 27,40 n.Br. 117,40 ö. L. J. Klapperich 17.5. 1938 (Fukien)/ Type Serica adspersa G. Frey 1972 ” (ZMFK), 1 ♀ “Kuatun (2300 m) 27,40 n.Br. 117,40 ö. L. J. Klapperich 24.5. 1938 (Fukien)/ Type Serica adspersa G. Frey 1972 ” (ZMFK).</p> <p>Additional material examined. 3 ex. “ Chine 21.IV.46 Kuatun, Fukien leg. Tschung-Sen ” (MHNG), 2 ex. “ Chine 1.V.46 Kuatun, Fukien leg. Tschung-Sen ” (MHNG), 1 ex. “ Chine 12.VI.46 Kuatun, Fukien leg. Tschung-Sen ” (MHNG), 1 ex. “ Kuatun (2300 m) 27, 40 n. <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-117.4&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=27.4" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -117.4/lat 27.4)">Br.</a> 117,40 ö. L. J. Klapperich 19.5. 1938 (Fukien)/ ex. Coll. V. Balthasar National Museum Prague, Czech Republic ” (NMPC), 1 ex. “ Kuatun (2300 m) 27, 40 n. <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-117.4&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=27.4" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -117.4/lat 27.4)">Br.</a> 117,40 ö. L. J. Klapperich 15.6. 1938 (Fukien)/ ex. Coll. V. Balthasar National Museum Prague, Czech Republic ” (NMPC), 1 ex. “ Kuatun (2300 m) 27, 40 n. <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-117.4&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=27.4" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -117.4/lat 27.4)">Br.</a> 117,40 ö. L. J. Klapperich 3.6. 1938 (Fukien)/ ex. Coll. V. Balthasar National Museum Prague, Czech Republic ” (NMPC), 2 ex. “ China, Fujian c., 21.-22.VI. Ziyungdongshan, NW slopes 25°46’N 117°20’E, 900-1100m Jaroslav Turna leg., 2007” (ZFMK), 1 ♂ “ China, W Jiangxi Jinggang Shan-Ciping 2-14.VI.1994 E. Jendek &amp; O. Sausa leg./ CS78” (CP), 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀ “ Huangkeng Aotou, Jianyang, Fujian, 6.V.1960, 750- 950m, leg. Zhang Yiran ” (IZAS), 1 ♀ “ Sangang, Chong’anxingcun, Fujian, 26.V. 1960, 750m, leg. Jiang Shengqiao ” (IZAS).</p> <p>Description of the holotype. Length: 10.6 mm, length of elytra: 7.5 mm, width: 5.6 mm. Body oval, reddish brown, elytra and pygidium yellowish brown, elytra with dense small dark spots, dull, partly with greenish toment, antenna yellow; dorsal surface almost glabrous.</p> <p>Labroclypeus subtrapezoidal, wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins weakly convex and strongly convergent anteriorly; anterior angles moderately rounded; anterior margin distinctly emarginate medially; margins weakly reflexed; surface flat and moderately shiny, on base broadly dull, finely and densely, partly rugosely punctate, with a few sparse erect setae; frontoclypeal suture finely incised, weakly bent medially; smooth area anterior to eye small and flat, twice as wide as long; ocular canthus short and slender (1/3 of ocular diameter), finely densely punctate, with a short terminal seta. Frons completely dull and flat, with fine and dense punctures, glabrous, with a few fine setae beside eyes. Eyes small, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.58. Antenna with 9 antennomeres; club with three antennomeres, 0.9 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined and straight. Mentum strongly elevated anteriorly, flattened anteriorly. Labrum weakly produced medially, narrowly but distinctly emarginate medially.</p> <p>Pronotum narrow and subtrapezoidal, widest at base, lateral margins almost entirely straight, evenly and weakly convex and well convergent anteriorly; anterior angles well produced and sharp; posterior angles blunt, weakly rounded; anterior margin straight, marginal line widely lacking; surface densely finely punctate, with minute setae in punctures; anterior and lateral margins sparsely setose; hypomeron carinate at base, moderately produced ventrally. Scutellum moderately large, triangular, finely and densely punctate, with minute setae in punctures.</p> <p>Elytra oval, widest at posterior third, striae finely impressed, finely and densely punctate; intervals weakly convex, with fine, sparse punctures concentrated along striae; with a few fine, short setae; epipleural edge fine, ending at moderately curved external apical angle of elytra, glabrous (sparse setae in available specimens probably abraded); apical margin narrowly membraneous, with a fine rime of minute microtrichomes (magnification 100x).</p> <p>Ventral surface dull, finely and densely punctate, glabrous; metacoxa glabrous, except a few short lateral setae. Mesosternum between mesocoxae half as wide as the slender mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/ 1.37. Abdominal sternites with a transverse row of coarse punctures, each bearing a long seta, otherwise glabrous; penultimate sternite at posterior margin with a wide membraneous rim being a quarter as long as sternite. Pygidium weakly convex and dull, finely and densely punctate, without smooth midline, with sparse, short setae on apical half.</p> <p>Legs slender, shiny, pro- and mesofemur dull; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and sparsely punctate between the rows. Posterior legs in holotype lacking.</p> <p>Protibia moderately long, bidentate, external margin smooth but bluntly extended at middle.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 4A–C. Habitus: Fig. 4D.</p> <p>Variation. Metafemur shiny, anterior margin acute, without a continuously serrated line behind anterior edge; ventral posterior margin serrated and only weakly widened at apex, dorsal posterior margin completely serrated, in basal half with a few long setae which are half as long as metafemur width. Metatibia slender and long, widest shortly before apex, ratio of width/ length: 1/4.0, dorsally sharply carinate, with only one group of spines at three quarters of metatibial length, basally with a few single, robust setae in row beside the dorsal margin; external face densely and finely punctate, without longitudinal wrinkles, with short or minute setae in punctures; ventral margin serrated, with two widely separated robust setae; medial face finely sparsely punctate, glabrous; apex interiorly near tarsal articulation bluntly truncate. Tarsomeres ventrally with sparse, minute setae, dorsally smooth. Metatarsomeres ventrally glabrous, laterally and dorsally not carinate, with a strongly serrated ridge ventrally; first metatarsomere as long as following two tarsomeres combined and distinctly longer than dorsal tibial spur. Protarsal claws asymmetrical, basal tooth of inner claw sharply pointed at apex.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFAAFFBCFF4359EBFCBCFDAA	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFFA8FFBDFF435B17FF42FC5E.text	AE7687EAFFA8FFBDFF435B17FF42FC5E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica solivaga Brenske 1898	<div><p>Serica solivaga Brenske, 1898</p> <p>Figures 4E–H, 21</p> <p>Serica (Ophthalmoserica) solivaga Brenske, 1898: 323; Arrow 1946: 6.</p> <p>Ophthalmoserica solivaga: Dalla Torre 1912: 16.</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “ Hte Birmanie Mines des Rubies 1200m 2300m Doherty 1890/ Ophthalmoserica solivaga type Brsk./ Museum Paris ex. Coll. R. Oberthür / Type” (MNHN).</p> <p>Additional material examined. Myanmar: 1 ♂ “N.E. Burma Kambaiti, 7000 ft. 19/4. 1934 R. Malaise/ 3296 E91” (NHRS), 1 ♂ “N.E. Burma Kambaiti, 2000 m 28/5. 1934 R. Malaise/ 3299 E91” (NHRS), 1 ♂ “N.E. Burma Kambaiti, 7000 ft. 12/5. 1934 R. Malaise/ Serica solivaga Determined from description G.J.A/ 3169 E91” (NHRS), 2 ex. “N. E. Burma Kambaiti 7000 ft. 8/4.1934/ N. E. Burma R. Malaise B. M. 1945-71” (BMNH), 2 ex. “N. E. Burma Kambaiti 7000 ft. 18/4.1934/ N. E. Burma R. Malaise B. M. 1945-71” (BMNH), 1 ex. “N. E. Burma Kambaiti 7000 ft. 3-7/5.1934/ N. E. Burma R. Malaise B. M. 1945-71” (BMNH), 1 ex. “N. E. Burma Kambaiti 7000 ft. 28/5.1934/ N. E. Burma R. Malaise B. M. 1945-71” (BMNH), 1 ex. “N. E. Burma Kambaiti 7000 ft. 13/5.1934/ N. E. Burma R. Malaise B. M. 1945-71” (BMNH), 18 ex. “ Myanmar (Burma) Provinz Kanchin State, Ca. 20 km N von Panwar, 23.05.2006, 2180m, N25°43’30.2’’ E098°23’35.3’’, Nachtfang, leg. M. Langer, S. Naumann &amp; S. Löffler Coll. Michael Langer ” (ZFMK), 1 ♂ “ Myanmar: Danasho 2800 m, Minshia vi-2004 leg. Yin et al.” (ZFMK). China: 4 ♂♂ “ China Yunnan prov. Gaologongshan mts. 90 km W of Baoshan S. Becvar leg. 26-29.v.1995 ” (CP), 3 ex. “ China: E-Yunnan; Damaidi 2500 m, Guangnan near Vietnam VII-2003 leg. Li et al.” (ZFMK), 2 ex. “ China, W Yunnan prov., mts. 60 Km E Tengchong, 2300m, 14.-19.v.2006 S. Murzin &amp; I. Shokin leg.” (CP), 1 ♂ “ Yunnan 2200-2500m 24.57N 98.45E 8.-16/5 <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=98.45&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=24.57" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 98.45/lat 24.57)">Gaoligong mts.</a> Vit Kuban leg. 1995” (CP), 1 ♂ “ Hetouzhai, Jinping, Yunnan, 12.V.1956, 1600-1700m, leg. Huang Keren etc.” (IZAS), 1 ♂ “Hetouzhai, Jinping, Yunnan, 14.V.1956, 1700m, light trap, leg. Huang Keren ” (IZAS), 2 ♂♂ “Jinping, Yunnan, 18.V.2006, 2000m, leg. Cui Jianxin ” (CAU), 1 ♂ “Yingjiang, Yunnan, 13,14. IV.1980, 1700m, leg. Gao Ping ” (IZAS), 3 ♂♂ “Yingjiang, Yunnan, 15.IV.1980, 1700m, leg. Gao Ping ” (IZAS), 3 ♂♂ “Hetouzhai, Jinping, Yunnan, 9, 14.V.1956, 1700m, light trap, leg. Huang Keren etc.” (IZAS), 1 ♂ “ Jinping, Yunnan, 18.V.2006, 2000m, leg. Cui Jianxin ” (CAU).</p> <p>Redescription of the holotype. Length: 8.5 mm, elytral length: 5.5 mm, width: 4.5 mm. Body oblong, dark brown, dull, legs brown, antenna yellow, dorsal surface almost glabrous.</p> <p>Labroclypeus narrow, subtrapezoidal, lateral margins straight and moderately convergent, producing a distinct angle with ocular canthus; anterior angles strongly rounded; anterior margin weakly sinuate medially, margins strongly reflexed; surface moderately shiny, flat, finely and densely punctate, with a few erect setae; frontoclypeal suture indistinct, curved and slightly elevated; ocular canthus moderately long and narrow (1/3 of ocular width), impunctate, with a short terminal seta. Frons with fine, moderately dense punctures, with a few long setae besides eyes. Antenna with 10 antennomeres, club with three antennomeres, strongly reflexed, 2.2 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined. Eyes large, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.88. Mentum convexly elevated and flattened anteriorly.</p> <p>Pronotum widest at base, lateral margins evenly moderately convex and convergent anteriorly; anterior angles blunt and moderately produced; posterior angles blunt; anterior margin strongly convex, marginal line complete; basal margin without marginal line; surface finely and moderately densely punctate, with minute seta in punctures. Hypomeron indistinctly carinate and not produced ventrally. Scutellum wide, triangular, sparsely punctate, with minute setae in punctures.</p> <p>Elytra narrow, widest in posterior third, striae distinctly impressed, finely punctate; intervals weakly convex, finely and densely punctate, punctures concentrated along striae; intervals almost glabrous apart from minute setae in punctures, odd intervals with a few single short setae; epipleural margin robust, ending at strongly rounded external apical angle of elytra, densely setose; apex of elytra with a fine membraneous rim of short microtrichomes.</p> <p>Ventral face dull, coarsely and densely punctate, only metasternal plate and lateral metacoxa with a few long or robust setae. Mesosternum between mesocoxae as wide as mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/ 1.4. Abdominal sternites finely and moderately densely punctate, each with a row of coarse punctures bearing each a robust seta, otherwise glabrous. Pygidium moderately convex, coarsely and densely punctate, almost glabrous.</p> <p>Legs long and narrow, shiny; femora finely and sparsely punctate, with two longitudinal rows of setae. Metafemur iridescent, with anterior margin acute, without adjacent serrated line; posterior ventral margin almost straight, weakly widened in apical half, ventrally and dorsally not serrated, sparsely setose. Metatibia long and narrow, ratio width/ length: 1/ 4.2, sharply carinate dorsally, with two groups of spines, basal one shortly before middle, apical one at almost four fifths of metatibial length, basally with a few fine and short setae; lateral face longitudinally convex, finely and sparsely punctate, glabrous; apex interiorly sharply truncate (in an angle of ca. 45° to tibial axis) near tarsal articulation. Tarsomeres impunctate dorsally, with moderately dense, fine setae ventrally; metatarsomeres ventrally with a strongly serrated carina, subventrally with a second, smooth longitudinal carina; first metatarsomere distinctly shorter than following two tarsomeres combined and one third of its length longer than dorsal tibial spur. Protibia moderately long, bidentate; anterior claws symmetric, interior tarsal claws bluntly truncate.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 4E–G. Habitus: 4H.</p> <p>Remarks. The record of S. solivaga from “northern Manchuria” of Sawada (1939) refers to Serica rosinae Pic, 1904.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFA8FFBDFF435B17FF42FC5E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		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AE7687EAFFA9FFB2FF435D43FF41FC16.text	AE7687EAFFA9FFB2FF435D43FF41FC16.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica mengsongana Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2022	<div><p>Serica mengsongana Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>Figures 4I–L, 21</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “ Mengsong, Menglongbanna, Yunnan, 27.IV.1958, 1600m, leg. Wang Shuyong /LW-172” (IZAS).</p> <p>Description of the holotype. Length: 7.6 mm, elytral length: 5.5 mm, width: 4.2 mm. Body oblong, dark brown, dull, legs brown, antenna yellow, dorsal surface almost glabrous.</p> <p>Labroclypeus narrow, subtrapezoidal, lateral margins straight and moderately convergent, producing a distinct angle with ocular canthus; anterior angles strongly rounded; anterior margin weakly sinuate medially, margins strongly reflexed; surface moderately shiny, flat, finely and densely punctate, with a few erect setae; frontoclypeal suture indistinct, curved and slightly elevated; ocular canthus moderately long and narrow (1/3 of ocular width), impunctate, with a short terminal seta. Frons with fine, moderately dense punctures, with a few long setae besides eyes. Antenna with 10 antennomeres, club with three antennomeres, strongly reflexed, 2.5 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined. Eyes very large, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.98. Mentum convexly elevated and flattened anteriorly.</p> <p>Pronotum widest at base, lateral margins evenly moderately convex and convergent anteriorly; anterior angles blunt and moderately produced; posterior angles blunt; anterior margin strongly convex, marginal line complete; basal margin without marginal line; surface finely and moderately densely punctate, with minute seta in punctures. Hypomeron indistinctly carinate and not produced ventrally. Scutellum wide, triangular, sparsely punctate, with minute setae in punctures.</p> <p>Elytra narrow, widest at middle, striae distinctly impressed, finely punctate; intervals weakly convex, finely and densely punctate, punctures concentrated along striae; intervals almost glabrous apart from minute setae in punctures, odd intervals with a few single short setae; epipleural margin robust, ending at strongly rounded external apical angle of elytra, densely setose; apex of elytra with a fine membraneous rim of short microtrichomes.</p> <p>Ventral face dull, coarsely and densely punctate, only metasternal plate and lateral metacoxa with a few long or robust setae. Mesosternum between mesocoxae as wide as mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/ 1.79. Abdominal sternites finely and moderately densely punctate, each with a row of coarse punctures bearing each a robust seta, otherwise glabrous. Pygidium moderately convex, coarsely and densely punctate, almost glabrous, with a few short setae along apical margin.</p> <p>Legs moderately long and wide, shiny; femora finely and sparsely punctate, with two longitudinal rows of setae. Metafemur almost dull, with anterior margin acute, without adjacent serrated line; posterior ventral margin almost straight, widened in apical half, ventrally and dorsally not serrated, sparsely setose. Metatibia moderately long and wide, ratio width/ length: 1/3.2, sharply carinate dorsally, with two groups of spines, basal one shortly before middle, apical one at almost four fifths of metatibial length, basally with a few fine and short setae; lateral face longitudinally convex, finely and sparsely punctate, glabrous; ventral margin with three robust spines of which the two distal ones are more distant to each other; mesal face impunctate and glabrous; apex interiorly sharply truncate (in an angle of ca. 45° to tibial axis) near tarsal articulation. Tarsomeres impunctate dorsally, with moderately dense, fine setae ventrally; metatarsomeres ventrally with a strongly serrated carina, subventrally with a second, smooth longitudinal carina; first metatarsomere as long as following two tarsomeres combined and little longer than dorsal tibial spur. Protibia moderately long, bidentate; anterior claws symmetric, interior tarsal claws bluntly truncate.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 4I–K. Habitus: 4L. Female unknown.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Serica mengsongana Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species differs from the similar S. solivaga Brenske, 1898 by the wider and shorter hind legs, including metatibia, and the morphology of aedeagus: the apex of the phallobase is more straight distally and less bent as in S. solivaga; the internal lobe of the left paramere is in S. mengsongana Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species mesal rather than basal, as in S. solivaga; and the right paramere in the new species has interiorly a small sharp spine-like hook before apex.</p> <p>Etymology. The name of the new species (adjective in nominative case) is derived from its type locality, Mengsong.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFA9FFB2FF435D43FF41FC16	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		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AE7687EAFFA6FFB2FF435A90FAADFAF6.text	AE7687EAFFA6FFB2FF435A90FAADFAF6.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica lupina Arrow 1946	<div><p>Serica lupina Arrow, 1946</p> <p>Figures 5A–D, 22</p> <p>Serica lupina Arrow, 1946: 5.</p> <p>Type material examined. Syntypes: 1 ♂ “N. E. Burma Kambaiti 7000 ft. 25-27/4/1934 R. Malaise / ♂ / Cotype/ N.E. Burma R. Malaise B. M. 1945-71/ Serica lupina co-type Arrow” (BMNH), 1 ♂ “N. E. Burma Kambaiti 7000 ft. 25-27/4/1934 R. Malaise / ♂ / Serica lupina co-type Arrow” (NHRS).</p> <p>Remarks. Unfortunately, we had no borrowed type specimens or any additional specimens for a redescription at hand when finalizing this revision. Images shown here date back to 2007 when D.A. visited the NHRS.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFA6FFB2FF435A90FAADFAF6	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFFA6FFB3FF435CEBFF52FB12.text	AE7687EAFFA6FFB3FF435CEBFF52FB12.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica guangnanensis Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2022	<div><p>Serica guangnanensis Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>Figures 5E–H, 22</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “ China: E-Yunnan; Damaidi 2500 m, Guangnan near Vietnam VII-2003 leg. Li et al./ 717 Sericini Asia spec.” (ZFMK).</p> <p>Description of the holotype. Length: 8.4 mm, elytral length: 5.9 mm, width: 4.6 mm. Body oblong, dark brown, dull, legs brown, antenna yellow, with numerous short and long setae on dorsal surface.</p> <p>Labroclypeus wide, trapezoidal, lateral margins convex and moderately convergent, producing a distinct angle with ocular canthus; anterior angles strongly rounded; anterior margin weakly sinuate medially, margins strongly reflexed; surface weakly convex, finely and densely punctate, with numerous erect setae; frontoclypeal suture indistinct, curved; ocular canthus moderately short and narrow (1/3 of ocular width), finely and densely punctate, with 1–2 short terminal setae. Frons with coarse, dense punctures and numerous long setae. Antenna with nine antennomeres, club with three antennomeres, as long as remaining antennomeres combined. Eyes small, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.53. Mentum convexly elevated and flattened anteriorly.</p> <p>Pronotum widest at base, lateral margins in basal half straight and weakly convergent, in anterior half evenly convex and convergent anteriorly; anterior angles sharp and distinctly produced, posterior angles blunt; anterior margin strongly convex, marginal line complete; basal margin without marginal line; surface coarsely and densely punctate, with numerous short and longer adjacent or erect yellow setae, otherwise punctures with microscopic setae only. Hypomeron carinate but not produced ventrally. Scutellum wide, triangular, punctation as on pronotum, with numerous short adjacent setae.</p> <p>Elytra narrow, widest in posterior third, striae distinctly impressed, finely punctate, odd intervals weakly convex, even ones flat, finely and densely punctate, punctures concentrated along striae in odd intervals, elytra covered with numerous long adjacent setae apart from minute setae in punctures; epipleural margin robust, ending at strongly rounded external apical angle of elytra, sparsely setose; apex of elytra with a fine membraneous rim of short microtrichomes.</p> <p>Ventral face coarsely and densely punctate, only metasternal plate and lateral metacoxa with a few long or robust setae. Mesosternum between mesocoxae as wide as mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/ 1.7. Abdominal sternites finely and moderately densely punctate, each with a row of coarse punctures bearing each a robust seta. Pygidium moderately convex, coarsely and densely punctate, with dense, long setae.</p> <p>Legs long and narrow, shiny; femora finely and sparsely punctate, with two longitudinal rows of setae. Metafemur with anterior margin acute, without adjacent serrated line; posterior ventral margin almost straight, weakly widened in apical half, ventrally and dorsally not serrated, sparsely setose. Metatibia moderately long and wide, ratio width/ length: 1/ 3.6, sharply carinate dorsally, with two groups of spines, basal one at three fifths, apical one at four fifths of metatibial length, basally with a few robust and short setae in line; lateral face longitudinally convex, finely and superficially sparsely punctate; apex concavely sinuate interiorly near tarsal articulation. Tarsomeres finely punctate dorsally, with moderately dense, fine setae ventrally; metatarsomeres ventrally with a strongly serrated carina, subventrally with a second, smooth longitudinal carina; first metatarsomere as long as following two tarsomeres combined and as long as dorsal tibial spur. Protibia moderately long, bidentate; anterior claws symmetric, interior tarsal claws sharply pointed.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 5E–G. Habitus: 5H. Female unknown.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Serica guangnanensis Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species differs from Serica lupina Arrow, 1946 by the short antennal club in male, which is as long as remaining antennomeres combined, and of course by the shape of the aedeagus: phallobase apically deeply emarginated between the insertino of parameres and parameres subequal in length being moderatly long and curved dorsally.</p> <p>Etymology. The name of the new species (adjective in nominative case) is derived from its type locality Guangnan.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFA6FFB3FF435CEBFF52FB12	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFFA7FFB1FF435D8FFD9AFA82.text	AE7687EAFFA7FFB1FF435D8FFD9AFA82.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica longipes Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2022	<div><p>Serica longipes Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>Figures 5I–L, 22</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “ China, Yunnan prov. 1.- 19.7.1992, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=100.19&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=27.13" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 100.19/lat 27.13)">Heishui</a> 35km N Lijiang 27.13N; 100.19E lgt. S. Becvar / 557 Sericini: Asia spec.” (ZFMK). Paratypes: 2 ♂♂ “ China, Yunnan prov. <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=100.19&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=27.13" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 100.19/lat 27.13)">Heishui</a> 35km N Lijiang 18.6.- 4.7.1992, 27.13N; 100.19E lgt. S. Becvar ” (CP), 1 ♂ “ Mts. Yulongshan, Lijiang, Yunnan, 27.VI.1962, leg. Song Shimei ” (IZAS), 2 ♂♂ “ China, Yunnan prov.; 1993 <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=100.19&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=27.13" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 100.19/lat 27.13)">Heishui</a> 35km N Lijiang; 27.13N; 100.19E; S. Becvar leg.; 18.vi.-4.vii./ 859 Sericini: Asia spec.” (CP), 1 ♂ “ Yunnan 1800-2500m 25.10N 100.21E <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=100.21&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=25.1" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 100.21/lat 25.1)">Weishan mt.</a> 22.- 25.6.92 David Kral lgt.” (NMPC), 2 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀ “ China: N-Yunnan, Baiyungshan (Rai Railing Mts.) 2400m, Yong Ren, VII-2003 leg. Ying et al.” (ZFMK), 1 ♂ “ Nongkesuo, Bijie, Guizhou, 1970s, No. 113, leg. Yang / LW-191” (IZAS).</p> <p>Description of the holotype. Length: 9.1 mm, elytral length: 6.6 mm, width: 4.4 mm. Body oblong, dark reddish brown, dull, legs brown, antenna yellow, with numerous short and long setae on dorsal surface.</p> <p>Labroclypeus moderately wide, trapezoidal, lateral margins weakly convex and moderately convergent, producing a distinct angle with ocular canthus; anterior angles strongly rounded; anterior margin moderately sinuate medially, margins strongly reflexed; surface flat, finely and densely punctate, with numerous long and erect setae; frontoclypeal suture indistinct, curved; ocular canthus moderately short and narrow (1/3 of ocular width), finely and densely punctate, with 1–3 short terminal setae. Frons with dull toment, with coarse, dense punctures and numerous long setae. Antenna with nine antennomeres, club with three antennomeres, twice as long as remaining antennomeres combined, moderately reflexed. Eyes large, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.74. Mentum convexly elevated and flattened anteriorly.</p> <p>Pronotum widest at base, lateral margins in basal half straight and subparallel, in anterior half convex and convergent anteriorly; anterior angles almost blunt and weakly produced, posterior angles blunt; anterior margin strongly convex, marginal line complete; basal margin without marginal line; surface with mixed coarse and fine, dense punctures, with numerous short and longer erect or forward-directed yellow setae. Hypomeron very weakly carinate ventrally. Scutellum narrow and long, triangular, with fine, dense punctation, at base with a smooth impunctate triangular area, with numerous short adjacent setae.</p> <p>Elytra narrow, elongate, widest in posterior third, striae distinctly impressed, finely punctate, intervals weakly convex, finely and densely punctate, punctures concentrated along striae, elytra with dense, long erect setae, minute setae absent; epipleural margin robust, ending at strongly rounded external apical angle of elytra, sparsely setose; apex of elytra with a fine membraneous rim of short microtrichomes.</p> <p>Ventral face coarsely and densely punctate, only metasternal plate and lateral metacoxa with a few long setae. Mesosternum between mesocoxae as wide as mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/ 1.5. Abdominal sternites finely and moderately densely punctate, each with a row of coarse punctures bearing each a robust seta, otherwise glabrous. Pygidium moderately convex, finely and densely punctate, with dense, long setae.</p> <p>Legs long and narrow, shiny; femora finely and sparsely punctate, with two longitudinal rows of setae. Metafemur with anterior margin acute, without adjacent serrated line; posterior ventral margin almost straight, weakly widened in apical half, ventrally and dorsally not serrated, sparsely setose. Metatibia long and narrow, widest at apex, ratio width/ length: 1/ 4.76, sharply carinate dorsally, with four groups of spines, basal one at first quarter, second one at middle, third one at two thrids, apical one at four fifths of metatibial length, basally glabrous; lateral face longitudinally convex, finely and irregularly densely punctate, glabrous; apex concavely and narrowly sinuate interiorly near tarsal articulation. Tarsomeres finely punctate dorsally, with moderately dense, fine setae ventrally; metatarsomeres ventrally with a strongly serrated carina, subventrally with a second, smooth longitudinal carina; first metatarsomere little shorter than following two tarsomeres combined and as long as dorsal tibial spur. Protibia long, bidentate; anterior claws symmetric, interior tarsal claws sharply pointed.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 5I–K. Habitus: 5L.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Serica longipes Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species differs from S. guangnanensis Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species by the densely and erectly setose dorsal body surface, the more slender metatibiae, and the shape of parameres, which are shorter and in lateral view almost straight.</p> <p>Etymology. The name of the new species (adjective in nominative case) is derived from the Latin combined words ‘ long ’ (i.e., long) and ‘ pes ’ (feed/ leg), with reference on the long legs of the species.</p> <p>Variation. Length: 9.0– 9.8 mm, elytral length: 6.5–8.2 mm, width: 4.4–5.2 mm. Female: antennal club short, as long as remaining antennomeres combined; pygidium weakly convex; eyes much smaller than in male, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.55.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFA7FFB1FF435D8FFD9AFA82	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFFA5FFB7FF435CFFFC2CFC16.text	AE7687EAFFA5FFB7FF435CFFFC2CFC16.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica nanhua Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2022	<div><p>Serica nanhua Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>Figures 6A–D, 22</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “ Nanhua, Yunnan, 7.V.1982, 2400m, leg. Yu Peiyu ” (IZAS). Paratypes: 9 ♂♂, 1 ♀ “ China, W Yunnan prov., mts. 60km E Tengchong, 2300m, 14.-19.v.2006, S. Murzin &amp; I. Shokhin ” (CP, ZFMK), 3 ♂♂, 5 ♀♀ “ China, W Yunnan prov., mts. 60km E Tengchong, 2300m, 19.-22.v.2006, S. Murzin &amp; I. Shokhin ” (CP, ZFMK).</p> <p>Description of the holotype. Length: 8.4 mm, elytral length: 6.0 mm, width: 4.4 mm. Body oblong, dark reddish brown, dull, legs brown, antenna yellow, with numerous short and long setae on dorsal surface.</p> <p>Labroclypeus moderately wide, trapezoidal, lateral margins convex and moderately convergent, producing a distinct angle with ocular canthus; anterior angles strongly rounded; anterior margin moderately sinuate medially, margins strongly reflexed; surface flat, finely and densely punctate, with numerous long and erect setae; frontoclypeal suture indistinct, curved; ocular canthus moderately short and narrow (1/3 of ocular width), finely and densely punctate, with 1–3 short terminal setae. Frons with dull toment, with coarse, dense punctures and numerous long setae. Antenna with nine antennomeres, club with three antennomeres, twice as long as remaining antennomeres combined, moderately reflexed. Eyes large, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.83. Mentum convexly elevated and flattened anteriorly.</p> <p>Pronotum widest in posterior third, lateral margins evenly convex and convergent anteriorly and posteriorly; anterior angles almost blunt and weakly produced, posterior angles blunt; anterior margin strongly convex, marginal line complete; basal margin without marginal line; surface with mixed coarse and fine, dense punctures, with numerous short and longer erect or forward-directed yellow setae. Hypomeron very weakly carinate ventrally. Scutellum narrow and long, triangular, with fine, dense punctation, at base with a smooth impunctate triangular area, with numerous short adjacent setae.</p> <p>Elytra narrow, elongate, widest in posterior third, striae distinctly impressed, finely punctate, intervals weakly convex, finely and densely punctate, punctures concentrated along striae, elytra with dense, long erect setae, minute setae absent; epipleural margin robust, ending at strongly rounded external apical angle of elytra, sparsely setose; apex of elytra with a fine membraneous rim of short microtrichomes.</p> <p>Ventral face coarsely and densely punctate, only metasternal plate and lateral metacoxa with a few long setae. Mesosternum between mesocoxae as wide as mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/ 1.54. Abdominal sternites finely and moderately densely punctate, each with a row of coarse punctures bearing each a robust seta, otherwise glabrous. Pygidium moderately convex, finely and densely punctate, with dense, long setae.</p> <p>Legs long and narrow, shiny; femora finely and sparsely punctate, with two longitudinal rows of setae. Metafemur with anterior margin acute, without adjacent serrated line; posterior ventral margin almost straight, weakly widened in apical half, ventrally and dorsally not serrated, sparsely setose. Metatibia long and narrow, widest at apex, ratio width/ length: 1/ 3.9, sharply carinate dorsally, with four groups of spines, basal one at first quarter, second one at middle, third one at two thrids, apical one at four fifths of metatibial length, basally glabrous; lateral face longitudinally convex, finely and irregularly densely punctate, glabrous; apex concavely and narrowly sinuate interiorly near tarsal articulation. Tarsomeres finely punctate dorsally, with moderately dense, fine setae ventrally; metatarsomeres ventrally with a strongly serrated carina, subventrally with a second, smooth longitudinal carina; first metatarsomere little shorter than following two tarsomeres combined and as long as dorsal tibial spur. Protibia long, bidentate; anterior claws symmetric, interior tarsal claws sharply pointed.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 6A–C. Habitus: 6D.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Serica nanhua Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species differs from Serica longipes Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species by the distinctly less curved left paramere.</p> <p>Etymology. The name of the new species (noun in apposition) is derived from the type locality, Nanhua.</p> <p>Variation. Length: 8.4–9.2 mm, elytral length: 6.0– 6.9 mm, width: 4.4–4.9 mm. The shape of pronotum may considerably variate, in some specimens widest at base with margin in basal half straight and subparallel, as in S. longipes. Female: antennal club short, as long as remaining antennomeres combined; pygidium weakly convex; eyes much smaller than in male, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.55.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFA5FFB7FF435CFFFC2CFC16	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFFA3FFB4FF435A90FBD8FC5E.text	AE7687EAFFA3FFB4FF435A90FBD8FC5E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica allolongipes Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2022	<div><p>Serica allolongipes Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>Figures 6E–H, 22</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “ China, Yunnan prov. <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=100.19&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=27.13" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 100.19/lat 27.13)">Heishui</a> 35km N Lijiang 18.6.- 4.7.1992, 27.13N; 100.19E lgt. S. Becvar / 1135 Sericini: Asia spec.” (ZFMK). Paratypes: 2 ♂♂ “ China, Yunnan prov. <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=100.19&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=27.13" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 100.19/lat 27.13)">Heishui</a> 35km N Lijiang 18.6.- 4.7.1992, 27.13N; 100.19E lgt. S. Becvar ” (CP), 2 ♂♂ “ China, Yunnan prov. <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=100.19&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=27.13" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 100.19/lat 27.13)">Heishui</a> 35km N Lijiang 18.6.- 4.7.1993, 27.13N; 100.19E lgt. S. Becvar ” (ZFMK), 1 ♂ “ Mts. Yulongshan, Lijiang, Yunnan, 28.VI.1962, leg. Song Shimei ” (IZAS).</p> <p>Description of the holotype. Length: 7.8 mm, elytral length: 6.1 mm, width: 4.1 mm. Body oblong, dark reddish brown, dull, legs brown, antenna yellow, with sparse short and long setae on dorsal surface.</p> <p>Labroclypeus moderately wide, trapezoidal, lateral margins straight and moderately convergent, producing a distinct angle with ocular canthus; anterior angles strongly rounded; anterior margin moderately sinuate medially, margins strongly reflexed; surface flat, finely and densely punctate, with numerous long and erect setae; frontoclypeal suture indistinct, curved; ocular canthus moderately short and narrow (1/3 of ocular width), finely and densely punctate, with 1–3 short terminal setae. Frons with dull toment, with coarse, dense punctures and a few long setae. Antenna with nine antennomeres, club with three antennomeres, 2.5 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined, strongly reflexed. Eyes moderately large, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.73. Mentum convexly elevated and flattened anteriorly.</p> <p>Pronotum widest at middle, lateral margins in basal half straight and subparallel, in anterior half convex and convergent anteriorly, only little narrowed towards base; anterior angles almost blunt and weakly produced, posterior angles blunt; anterior margin strongly convex, marginal line complete; basal margin without marginal line; surface with mixed coarse and fine, dense punctures, with a few short and longer erect or forward-directed yellow setae. Hypomeron very weakly carinate ventrally. Scutellum narrow and long, triangular, with fine, dense punctation, at base with a smooth impunctate triangular area, with a very few short setae.</p> <p>Elytra narrow, elongate, widest in posterior quarter, striae distinctly impressed, finely punctate, intervals weakly convex, finely and densely punctate, punctures concentrated along striae, elytra with moderately dense, long and erect setae in row on each sides of odd intervals, minute setae absent; epipleural margin robust, ending at strongly rounded external apical angle of elytra, sparsely setose; apex of elytra with a fine membraneous rim of short microtrichomes.</p> <p>Ventral face coarsely and densely punctate, only metasternal plate and lateral metacoxa with a few long setae, otherwise almost glabrous. Mesosternum between mesocoxae as wide as mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/ 1.55. Abdominal sternites finely and moderately densely punctate, each with a row of coarse punctures bearing each a robust seta, otherwise glabrous. Pygidium strongly convex, finely and densely punctate, with moderately dense, long setae on apical half.</p> <p>Legs long and narrow, shiny; femora finely and sparsely punctate, with two longitudinal rows of setae. Metafemur with anterior margin acute, without adjacent serrated line; posterior ventral margin almost straight, weakly widened in apical half, ventrally and dorsally not serrated, sparsely setose. Metatibia long and narrow, widest at apex, ratio width/ length: 1/ 3.9, sharply carinate dorsally, with only one group of spines at four fifths of metatibial length, basally of it beside the dorsal margin with a 3–4 single robust setae over the entire metatibial length; lateral face longitudinally convex, finely and irregularly densely punctate, glabrous; apex concavely and narrowly sinuate interiorly near tarsal articulation. Tarsomeres finely punctate dorsally, with moderately dense, fine setae ventrally; metatarsomeres ventrally with a strongly serrated carina, subventrally with a second, smooth longitudinal carina; first metatarsomere little shorter than following two tarsomeres combined and little longer than dorsal tibial spur. Protibia long, bidentate; anterior claws symmetric, interior tarsal claws sharply pointed.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 6E–G. Habitus: Fig. 6H. Female unknown.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Serica allolongipes Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species differs from Serica longipes Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species by the much less dense pilosity on dorsal surface and the shape of parameres. The right paramere is bluntly widened before apex and almost pointed at apex, while in S. longipes the lateral blunt extension is absent and the apex is distinctly rounded. Furthermore, the left paramere is in basal half much more convexly widened.</p> <p>Etymology. The name of the new species (adjective in nominative case) is derived from the combined Greek prefix ‘ allo- ’ (different, other) and the species name ‘ longipes ’, with reference on the similarity to this synoccurring species.</p> <p>Variation. Length: 7.8–9.4 mm, elytral length: 6.1–6.6 mm, width: 4.1–4.5 mm.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFA3FFB4FF435A90FBD8FC5E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFFA0FF8AFF435D48FBD8FC5E.text	AE7687EAFFA0FF8AFF435D48FBD8FC5E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica paralongipes Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2022	<div><p>Serica paralongipes Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>Figures 7A–E, 25</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype ♂ “ China: N-Yunnan, Baiyungshan (Rai Railing Mts.) 2400m, Yong Ren, VII- 2003 leg. Ying et al.” (ZFMK). Paratype: 1 ♂ “ China: N-Yunnan, Baiyungshan (Rai Railing Mts.) 2400m, Yong Ren, VII-2003 leg. Ying et al.” (ZFMK).</p> <p>Description of the holotype. Length: 7.8 mm, elytral length: 5.6 mm, width: 4.9 mm. Body oblong, dark reddish brown, dull, legs brown, antenna yellow, with sparse short and long setae on dorsal surface.</p> <p>Labroclypeus moderately wide, trapezoidal, lateral margins straight and moderately convergent, producing a distinct angle with ocular canthus; anterior angles strongly rounded; anterior margin moderately sinuate medially, margins strongly reflexed; surface weakly convex, finely and densely punctate, with numerous long and erect setae; frontoclypeal suture indistinct, curved; ocular canthus moderately short and narrow (1/3 of ocular width), finely and densely punctate, with 1–3 short terminal setae. Frons with dull toment, with coarse, dense punctures and numerous long erect setae. Antenna with nine antennomeres, club with three antennomeres, 2.2 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined, strongly reflexed. Eyes small, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.54. Mentum convexly elevated and flattened anteriorly.</p> <p>Pronotum widest at base, lateral margins in basal half straight and weakly convergent towards middle, in anterior half margins convex and convergent anteriorly; anterior angles almost blunt and moderately produced, posterior angles blunt; anterior margin strongly convex, marginal line complete; basal margin without marginal line; surface with mixed coarse and fine, dense punctures, with a few short and longer yellow setae. Hypomeron very weakly carinate ventrally. Scutellum narrow and long, triangular, with fine, dense punctation, at base with a smooth impunctate triangular area, with a very few short setae.</p> <p>Elytra narrow, elongate, widest in posterior quarter, striae distinctly impressed, finely punctate, intervals weakly convex, finely and densely punctate, punctures concentrated along striae, elytra with moderately dense, long and erect setae in row on each sides of odd intervals, minute setae absent; epipleural margin robust, ending at strongly rounded external apical angle of elytra, sparsely setose; apex of elytra with a fine membraneous rim of short microtrichomes.</p> <p>Ventral face coarsely and densely punctate, only metasternal plate and lateral metacoxa with a few long setae, otherwise almost glabrous. Mesosternum between mesocoxae as wide as mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/ 1.62. Abdominal sternites finely and moderately densely punctate, each with a row of coarse punctures bearing each a robust seta, otherwise glabrous. Pygidium moderately convex, finely and densely punctate, with a few sparse, long setae on apical half.</p> <p>Legs long and narrow, shiny; femora finely and sparsely punctate, with two longitudinal rows of setae. Metafemur with anterior margin acute, without adjacent serrated line; posterior ventral margin almost straight, weakly widened in apical half, ventrally and dorsally not serrated, sparsely setose. Metatibia long and narrow, widest at apex, ratio width/ length: 1/ 4.1, sharply carinate dorsally, with two groups of robust spines, basal one shortly behind middle apical one at four fifths of metatibial length, basally with a few single robust setae; lateral face longitudinally convex, coarsely and densely punctate, glabrous; apex concavely and narrowly sinuate interiorly near tarsal articulation. Tarsomeres finely punctate dorsally, with moderately dense, fine setae ventrally; metatarsomeres ventrally with a strongly serrated carina, subventrally with a second, smooth longitudinal carina; first metatarsomere little shorter than following two tarsomeres combined and little longer than dorsal tibial spur. Protibia long, bidentate; anterior claws symmetric, interior tarsal claws sharply pointed.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 7A–D. Habitus: 7E. Female unknown.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Serica paralongipes Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species differs from sympatric Serica longipes Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species by the much less dense pilosity on dorsal surface and the left paramere which is narrower and sickle-shaped, almost circular in cross section over almost its entire length. From S. allolongipes Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species Serica paralongipes Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species differs by the simply rounded apex of right almost straight paramere.</p> <p>Etymology. The name of the new species (adjective in nominative case) is derived from the combined Greek prefix ‘ para -’ (false) and the species name ‘ longipes ’, with reference on the similarity to this synoccurring species.</p> <p>Variation. Length: 7.6–7.8 mm, elytral length: 5.5–5.6 mm, width: 4.8–4.9 mm.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFA0FF8AFF435D48FBD8FC5E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFF9EFF8BFF435D43FBD8FC16.text	AE7687EAFF9EFF8BFF435D43FBD8FC16.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica gaoligong Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2022	<div><p>Serica gaoligong Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>Figures 7F–J, 22</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “ Yunnan 2200-2500m 24.57N 98.45E 8-16/5 Gaoligong <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=98.45&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=24.57" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 98.45/lat 24.57)">mts.</a> Vit Kuban leg. 1995/ 1136 Sericini: Asia spec.” (CP). Paratypes: 1 ♂ “ Yunnan 2200-2500m 24.57N 98.45E 8-16/5 Gaoligong <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=98.45&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=24.57" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 98.45/lat 24.57)">mts.</a> Vit Kuban leg. 1995” (ZFMK), 2 ♂♂ “N-Vietnam, Lao Cai Prov., Hoang Lien NP, Tram Ton, N22°21.197’ E103°46.513 ’, 1800-2050m 13.- 16.5.2015, leg. A. Skale ” (ZFMK).</p> <p>Description of the holotype. Length: 9.6 mm, elytral length: 6.9 mm, width: 4.9 mm. Body oblong, dark reddish brown, dull, legs brown, antenna yellow, with numerous short and long setae on dorsal surface.</p> <p>Labroclypeus moderately wide, trapezoidal, lateral margins stright and moderately convergent, producing a distinct angle with ocular canthus; anterior angles strongly rounded; anterior margin moderately sinuate medially, margins strongly reflexed; surface flat, finely and densely punctate, with numerous long and erect setae; frontoclypeal suture indistinct, curved; ocular canthus moderately short and narrow (1/3 of ocular width), finely and densely punctate, with 1–3 short terminal setae. Frons with dull toment, with coarse, dense punctures and numerous long setae. Antenna with nine antennomeres, club with three antennomeres, three times as long as remaining antennomeres combined, strongly reflexed. Eyes small, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.58. Mentum convexly elevated and flattened anteriorly.</p> <p>Pronotum widest at base, lateral margins in basal half straight and weakly convergent, in anterior half convex and distinctly convergent anteriorly; anterior angles almost blunt, weakly rounded at tip, and weakly produced, posterior angles blunt; anterior margin strongly convex, marginal line complete; basal margin without marginal line; surface with mixed coarse and fine, dense punctures, with numerous short and longer erect or forward-directed yellow setae. Hypomeron very weakly carinate ventrally. Scutellum narrow and long, triangular, with fine, dense punctation, at base with a smooth impunctate triangular area, with numerous short adjacent setae.</p> <p>Elytra narrow, elongate, widest in posterior quarter, striae distinctly impressed, finely punctate, intervals weakly convex, finely and densely punctate, punctures concentrated along striae, elytra with moderately dense, long and erect setae in row on each sides of odd intervals, minute setae absent; epipleural margin robust, ending at strongly rounded external apical angle of elytra, sparsely setose; apex of elytra with a fine membraneous rim of short microtrichomes.</p> <p>Ventral face coarsely and densely punctate, only metasternal plate and lateral metacoxa with a few long setae. Mesosternum between mesocoxae as wide as mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/ 1.47. Abdominal sternites finely and moderately densely punctate, each with a row of coarse punctures bearing each a robust seta, otherwise glabrous. Pygidium moderately convex, finely and densely punctate, with a few short setae.</p> <p>Legs long and narrow, shiny; femora finely and sparsely punctate, with two longitudinal rows of setae. Metafemur with anterior margin acute, without adjacent serrated line; posterior ventral margin almost straight, weakly widened in apical half, ventrally and dorsally not serrated, sparsely setose. Metatibia long and narrow, widest at apex, ratio width/ length: 1/ 4.1, sharply carinate dorsally, with four groups of spines, basal one at first quarter, second one at middle, third one at two thrids, apical one at four fifths of metatibial length, basally glabrous; lateral face longitudinally convex, finely and irregularly densely punctate, glabrous; apex concavely and narrowly sinuate interiorly near tarsal articulation. Tarsomeres finely punctate dorsally, with moderately dense, fine setae ventrally; metatarsomeres ventrally with a strongly serrated carina, subventrally with a second, smooth longitudinal carina; first metatarsomere little shorter than following two tarsomeres combined and as long as dorsal tibial spur. Protibia long, bidentate; anterior claws symmetric, interior tarsal claws sharply pointed.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 7F–I. Habitus: Fig. 7J. Female unknown.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Serica gaoligong Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species differs from Serica longipes Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species by the shape of parameres: the right paramere is more strongly bent at middle and sarply pointed at apex.</p> <p>Etymology. The name of the new species (noun in apposition) is derived from its type locality (Gaoligong).</p> <p>Variation. Length: 9.1–9.6 mm, elytral length: 6.8–6.9 mm, width: 4.8–4.9 mm.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFF9EFF8BFF435D43FBD8FC16	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFF9FFF88FF435A8BFACCFCA6.text	AE7687EAFF9FFF88FF435A8BFACCFCA6.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica yini Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2022	<div><p>Serica yini Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>Figures 7K–N, 22</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “ Myanmar: Danasho 2800 m, Minshia vi-2004 leg. Yin et al./ Phil #11- 2004:4./ 1134 Sericini: Asia spec.” (ZFMK).</p> <p>Description of the holotype. Length: 9.8 mm, elytral length: 7.0 mm, width: 4.8 mm. Body oblong, dark reddish brown, dull, legs brown, antenna yellow, with sparse short and long setae on dorsal surface.</p> <p>Labroclypeus moderately wide, trapezoidal, lateral margins straight and moderately convergent, producing a distinct angle with ocular canthus; anterior angles strongly rounded; anterior margin moderately sinuate medially, margins strongly reflexed; surface weakly convex, finely and densely punctate, with numerous long and erect setae; frontoclypeal suture indistinct, curved; ocular canthus moderately short and narrow (1/3 of ocular width), finely and densely punctate, with 1–3 short terminal setae. Frons with dull toment, with coarse, dense punctures and a few long setae. Antenna with nine antennomeres, club with three antennomeres, 2.2 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined, strongly reflexed. Eyes moderately large, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.62. Mentum convexly elevated and flattened anteriorly.</p> <p>Pronotum widest at base, lateral margins in basal half straight and weakly convergent, in anterior half convex and convergent anteriorly; anterior angles rectangular and weakly produced, posterior angles blunt; anterior margin strongly convex, marginal line complete; basal margin without marginal line; surface with mixed coarse and fine, dense punctures, with a few short and longer erect or forward-directed yellow setae. Hypomeron very weakly carinate ventrally. Scutellum narrow and long, triangular, with fine, dense punctation, at base with a smooth impunctate triangular area, with a very few short setae.</p> <p>Elytra narrow, elongate, widest at middle, striae distinctly impressed, finely punctate, intervals weakly convex, finely and densely punctate, punctures concentrated along striae, elytra with moderately dense, long and erect setae in row on each sides of odd intervals, minute setae absent; epipleural margin robust, ending at strongly rounded external apical angle of elytra, sparsely setose; apex of elytra with a fine membraneous rim of short microtrichomes.</p> <p>Ventral face coarsely and densely punctate, only metasternal plate and lateral metacoxa with a few long setae, otherwise almost glabrous. Mesosternum between mesocoxae as wide as mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/ 1.57. Abdominal sternites finely and moderately densely punctate, each with a row of coarse punctures bearing each a robust seta, otherwise glabrous. Pygidium moderately convex, finely and densely punctate, with moderately dense, long setae on apical half.</p> <p>Legs long and narrow, shiny; femora finely and sparsely punctate, with two longitudinal rows of setae. Metafemur with anterior margin acute, without adjacent serrated line; posterior ventral margin almost straight, weakly widened in apical half, ventrally and dorsally not serrated, sparsely setose. Metatibia long and narrow, widest at apex, ratio width/ length: 1/ 4.6, sharply carinate dorsally, with two groups of robust spines, basal one shortly behind middle, apical one at four fifths of metatibial length, in basal half with a two further small robust setae beside the dorsal margin; lateral face longitudinally convex, finely and moderately densely punctate, glabrous; apex concavely and narrowly sinuate interiorly near tarsal articulation. Tarsomeres finely punctate dorsally, with moderately dense, fine setae ventrally; metatarsomeres ventrally with a strongly serrated carina, subventrally with a second, smooth longitudinal carina; first metatarsomere little shorter than following two tarsomeres combined and little longer than dorsal tibial spur. Protibia long, bidentate; anterior claws symmetric, interior tarsal claws sharply pointed.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 7K–M. Habitus: Fig. 7N. Female unknown.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Serica yini Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species differs from Serica allolongipes Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species by the shape of parameres. The apically bluntly widened right paramere has before apex an additional sharp lateral tooth and almost bluntly truncate at apex; the left paramere is robust over its entirly length and shorter, abruptly pointed at apex.</p> <p>Etymology. The new species (adjective in nominative case) is named after one of its collectors, Mr. Yin.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFF9FFF88FF435A8BFACCFCA6	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		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AE7687EAFF9CFF8EFF435A1BFE2FFC32.text	AE7687EAFF9CFF8EFF435A1BFE2FFC32.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica paralupina Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2022	<div><p>Serica paralupina Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>Figures 8A–D, 23</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “China-Shaanxi, Taibashan Range, 1900m, Houzhenzi vill. env., 1- 12.VII.1999, 33°53N, 107°49E, V. Siniaev &amp; A. Plutenko lgt./ 833 Sericini: Asia spec.” (CP). Paratypes: 4 ♂♂ “ China-Shaanxi, Taibashan Range, 1900m, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=107.816666&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=33.883335" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 107.816666/lat 33.883335)">Houzhenzi</a> vill. env., 1-12.VII.1999, 33°53N, 107°49E, V. Siniaev &amp; A. Plutenko lgt.” (CP, ZFMK), 27 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀ “ China: <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=102.0&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=28.566668" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 102.0/lat 28.566668)">Daxue Shan Mts.</a>, Sichuan, 40 km W Mianning, 7.-8.vi.1999, 2750m, 28°34’N, 102°00’E, V. Siniaev &amp; A. Plutenko lgt.” (CP, ZFMK).</p> <p>Description of the holotype. Length: 9.2 mm, elytral length: 6.8 mm, width: 4.6 mm. Body oblong, dark yellowish brown, frons dark brown, dull, legs brown, antenna yellow, except a few short setae on head dorsal surface glabrous.</p> <p>Labroclypeus wide, trapezoidal, lateral margins weakly convex and convergent, producing a blunt angle with ocular canthus; anterior angles strongly convex; anterior margin distinctly emarginate medially; margins moderately reflexed; surface weakly convex, finely and densely punctate, with numerous long and erect setae; frontoclypeal suture distinct, moderately curved; ocular canthus short and moderately narrow (1/4 of ocular width), smooth and glabrous, without terminal setae. Frons with dull toment, with fine, moderately dense punctures, anteriorly with a few long setae. Antenna with nine antennomeres, club with three antennomeres, 2.7 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined, distinctly reflexed. Eyes moderately large, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.69. Mentum convexly elevated and flattened anteriorly.</p> <p>Pronotum moderately wide, widest at base, lateral margins evenly modertely convex and convergent anteriorly; anterior angles almost blunt, weakly produced, posterior angles blunt; anterior margin weakly convex, marginal line fine but complete; basal margin without marginal line; surface with coarse, dense punctures and glabrous, also without minute setae. Hypomeron not carinate ventrally. Scutellum narrow and long, triangular, with fine but very dense punctation, glabrous, basally with a triangular smooth area.</p> <p>Elytra elongate and narrow, widest in posterior third; striae distinctly impressed, finely punctate; intervals weakly convex, finely and densely punctate, punctures concentrated along striae; glabrous, lateral intervals with a few moderately long, adpressed or erect setae; epipleural margin robust, ending at strongly rounded external apical angle of elytra, sparsely setose; apex of elytra with a very fine membraneous rim of short microtrichomes.</p> <p>Ventral face finely and densely punctate, glabrous. Metacoxae laterally with a few longer setae. Mesosternum between mesocoxae as wide as mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/ 1.43. Abdominal sternites finely and moderately densely punctate, each with a row of coarse punctures bearing each a robust seta, otherwise also glabrous. Pygidium almost flat, finely and densely punctate, with moderately dense, long setae.</p> <p>Legs long and narrow, shiny; femora finely and sparsely punctate, with two longitudinal rows of setae. Metafemur with anterior margin acute, without adjacent serrated line; posterior ventral margin almost straight, weakly widened in apical half, ventrally and dorsally not serrated, sparsely setose. Metatibia long and narrow, widest at apex, ratio width/ length: 1/ 4.4, sharply carinate dorsally, with two groups of spines, basal one at three fifths, apical one at four fifths of metatibial length, basally with a number of robust single setae; lateral face longitudinally convex, finely and moderately densely punctate, glabrous; apex shallowly concavely truncate interiorly near tarsal articulation. Tarsomeres finely punctate dorsally, with moderately dense, fine setae ventrally; metatarsomeres ventrally with a strongly serrated carina, subventrally with a second, smooth longitudinal carina; first metatarsomere little shorter than following two tarsomeres combined and little shorter than dorsal tibial spur. Protibia long, bidentate; anterior claws symmetric, interior tarsal claws sharply pointed.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 8A–C. Habitus: Fig. 8D.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Serica paralupina Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species differs from Serica lupina Arrow, 1946 and all other species of this species group by the lack of dense dorsal pilosity, and, of course, by the shape of aedeagus: the apical phallobase is strongly asymmetric having the left paramere inserted more basally and displaced ventrally under the apical aedeagus.</p> <p>Etymology. The name of the new species (noun in apposition) is derrived from the combined Gree prefix ‘ pseudo -’ (false) and the species name ‘ lupina ’, with reference to the similarity of the species to Serica lupina Arrow, 1946.</p> <p>Variation. Length: 8.8–9.2 mm, elytral length: 6.4–6.8 mm, width: 4.4–4.6 mm. Female: Antennal club short, as long as reminaing antennomeres combined; eyes smaller than in male, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.56; pygidium weakly convex.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFF9CFF8EFF435A1BFE2FFC32	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		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AE7687EAFF9AFF8FFF435AAFFE0AFC16.text	AE7687EAFF9AFF8FFF435AAFFE0AFC16.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica baishuitaiensis Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2022	<div><p>Serica baishuitaiensis Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>Figures 8E–H, 23</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “ China, NW Yunnan prov., Baishuitai, (San Ba terasses) 2600m, 4.- 6.vi.2006, S. Murzin &amp; I. Shokhin / 851 Sericini: Asia spec.” (CP). Paratypes: 13 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀ “ China, NW Yunnan prov., Baishuitai, (San Ba terasses) 2600m, 4.-6.vi.2006, S. Murzin &amp; I. Shokhin ” (CP, ZFMK).</p> <p>Description of the holotype. Length: 7.6 mm, elytral length: 5.5 mm, width: 4.4 mm. Body oblong, dark reddish brown, dull, legs brown, antenna yellow, with numerous short and long setae on dorsal surface.</p> <p>Labroclypeus moderately wide, trapezoidal, lateral margins straight and moderately convergent, producing a distinct angle with ocular canthus; anterior angles almost blunt, weakly rounded; anterior margin straight, only very weakly concave medially, margins strongly reflexed; surface weakly convex, finely and densely punctate, with numerous long and erect setae; frontoclypeal suture indistinct, curved; ocular canthus moderately short and narrow (1/3 of ocular width), finely and densely punctate, with 1–2 short terminal setae. Frons with dull toment, with coarse, dense punctures and numerous short adpressed and a few long, setae bent posteriorly. Antenna with nine antennomeres, club with three antennomeres, 2.5 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined, distinctly reflexed. Eyes moderately large, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.64. Mentum convexly elevated and flattened anteriorly.</p> <p>Pronotum widest at base, lateral margins in basal half straight and subparallel, in anterior half convex and convergent anteriorly; anterior angles rectangular and moderately produced, posterior angles blunt; anterior margin strongly convex, marginal line complete; basal margin without marginal line; surface with coarse, dense punctures and numerous short setae bent posteriorly and laterally dense longer yellow setae bent anteriorly. Hypomeron robustly carinate ventrally, carina produced ventrally. Scutellum narrow and long, triangular, with fine dense punctation, with numerous short adjacent setae.</p> <p>Elytra narrow, widest in posterior third, striae distinctly impressed, finely punctate, intervals weakly convex, finely and densely punctate, punctures concentrated along striae; with dense, short setae on disc and long erect setae bent partly anteriorly; epipleural margin robust, ending at strongly rounded external apical angle of elytra, sparsely setose; apex of elytra with a fine membraneous rim of short microtrichomes.</p> <p>Ventral face coarsely and densely punctate, with moderately dense short adpressed setae. Mesosternum between mesocoxae as wide as mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/ 1.46. Abdominal sternites finely and moderately densely punctate, each with a row of coarse punctures bearing each a robust seta, otherwise short adpressed setae in the punctures. Pygidium moderately convex, finely and densely punctate, with dense, long setae.</p> <p>Legs long and narrow, shiny; femora finely and sparsely punctate, with two longitudinal rows of setae. Metafemur with anterior margin acute, without adjacent serrated line; posterior ventral margin almost straight, weakly widened in apical half, ventrally and dorsally not serrated, sparsely setose. Metatibia moderately long and narrow, widest at apex, ratio width/ length: 1/ 3.8, sharply carinate dorsally, with two groups of spines, basal one at middle, apical one at five sixths of metatibial length, basally with a number of robust single setae; lateral face longitudinally convex, coarsely and irregularly punctate, with minute adpressed setae; apex shallowly emarginate interiorly near tarsal articulation. Tarsomeres finely punctate dorsally, with moderately dense, fine setae ventrally; metatarsomeres ventrally with a strongly serrated carina, subventrally with a second, smooth longitudinal carina; first metatarsomere little shorter than following two tarsomeres combined and as long as dorsal tibial spur. Protibia moderately long, bidentate; anterior claws symmetric, interior tarsal claws sharply pointed.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 8E–G. Habitus: Fig. 8H.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Serica baishuitaiensis Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species differs from Serica guangnanensis Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species by the more densely setose dorsal body surface, the longer antennal club (male), and the shape of parameres, which are evenly curved ventrally (lateral view) rather than being curved dorsally as in S. guangnanensis Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>Etymology. The name of the new species (adjective in nominative case) is derived from the type locality, Baishuitai.</p> <p>Variation. Length: 7.6–9.1 mm, elytral length: 5.5–6.9 mm, width: 4.4–5.1 mm. Female: antennal club short, as long as remaining antennomeres combined; pygidium weakly convex; eyes smaller than in male, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.54.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFF9AFF8FFF435AAFFE0AFC16	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFF9BFF8CFF435A8BFED7FCA6.text	AE7687EAFF9BFF8CFF435A8BFED7FCA6.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica huangbaiyuanensis Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2022	<div><p>Serica huangbaiyuanensis Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>Figures 8I–L, 23</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “ Shaanxi Huangbaiyuan 2012-VI-17 / LW-1034” (ZFMK).</p> <p>Description of the holotype. Length: 7.4 mm, elytral length: 5.7 mm, width: 4.5 mm. Body oblong, reddish brown, dull, legs brown, antenna yellow, dorsal surface covered with dense erect and moderately long setae.</p> <p>Labroclypeus wide, subrectangular, lateral margins weakly convex and weakly convergent, producing a blunt angle with ocular canthus; anterior angles strongly convex; anterior margin shallowly emarginate medially; margins moderately reflexed; surface weakly convex, finely and densely punctate, with numerous long and erect setae; frontoclypeal suture distinct, moderately curved; ocular canthus moderately long and narrow (1/3 of ocular width), finely punctate, without terminal seta. Frons with dull toment, with fine, moderately dense punctures, anteriorly and beside eyes with a few long setae. Antenna with nine antennomeres, club with three antennomeres, three times as long as remaining antennomeres combined, distinctly reflexed; antennomeres 4 to 6 short and transverse. Eyes moderately large, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.7. Mentum convexly elevated and flattened anteriorly.</p> <p>Pronotum moderately wide, widest at base, lateral margins evenly modertely convex and convergent anteriorly; anterior angles almost blunt, weakly produced, posterior angles blunt; anterior margin weakly convex, marginal line fine but complete; basal margin without marginal line; surface with coarse, dense punctures and moderately dense erect setae, partly in punctures with minute adpressed, fine setae. Hypomeron carinate ventrally, not produced ventrally. Scutellum narrow and long, triangular, with coarse, very dense punctation and short adpressed setae, basally with a triangular smooth area.</p> <p>Elytra elongate and narrow, widest in posterior third; striae distinctly impressed, finely punctate; intervals weakly convex, coarsely and densely almost evenly punctate; with moderately dense, erect setae, which are dense on lateral intervals, partly with ninute adpressed setae in punctures; epipleural margin robust, ending at strongly rounded external apical angle of elytra, sparsely setose; apex of elytra with a very fine membraneous rim of short microtrichomes.</p> <p>Ventral face finely and densely punctate, with short and dense setae. Metacoxae glabrous, only laterally with a few longer setae. Mesosternum between mesocoxae as wide as mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/ 1.44. Abdominal sternites finely and moderately densely punctate, each with a row of coarse punctures bearing each a robust seta, otherwise with short fine setae in punctures. Pygidium almost flat, finely and densely punctate, with dense, long setae.</p> <p>Legs long and narrow, shiny; femora finely and sparsely punctate, with two longitudinal rows of setae. Metafemur with anterior margin acute, without adjacent serrated line; posterior ventral margin almost straight, weakly widened in apical half, ventrally and dorsally not serrated, sparsely setose. Metatibia moderately long and narrow, widest at apex, ratio width/ length: 1/ 3.5, sharply carinate dorsally, with three groups of spines, basal one shortly before the middle, medium one at two thirds, apical one at four fifths of metatibial length, basally and along a longitudinal blunt carina beside the dorsal margin with a number of short, robust, single setae; lateral face almost flat, coarsely and densely punctate, with a few short setae; apex shallowly concavely truncate interiorly near tarsal articulation. Tarsomeres finely punctate dorsally, with moderately dense, fine setae ventrally; metatarsomeres ventrally with a strongly serrated carina, subventrally with a second, smooth longitudinal carina; first metatarsomere little shorter than following two tarsomeres combined and little shorter than dorsal tibial spur. Protibia short, bidentate; anterior claws symmetric, interior tarsal claws sharply pointed.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 8I–K. Habitus: Fig. 8L. Female unknown.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Serica huangbaiyuanensis Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species differs from the other setose species of the Serica lupina group by the shorter legs, and by the basal lobe of right paramere.</p> <p>Etymology. The name of the new species (adjective in nominative case) is derived from the type locality, Huangbaiyuan.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFF9BFF8CFF435A8BFED7FCA6	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFF98FF82FF435A20FC2BFD8E.text	AE7687EAFF98FF82FF435A20FC2BFD8E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica jirii Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2022	<div><p>Serica jirii Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>Figures 9A–D, 24</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “ China: Yunnan Prov., 8 km NW Gudong, 28.vi.2016 <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=98.40667&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=25.376667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 98.40667/lat 25.376667)">Yunfeng</a> Shan NP Lyzu temple, at light 25°22.6’N, 98°24.4’E, 2350 m J. Hájek &amp; J. Růžička leg./ 1106 Asia Sericini spec. ” (NMPC). Paratypes: 2 ♂♂, 6 ♀♀ “ Myanmar (Burma) Provinz Kachin State Three River Junction (Thone chaung sone) N 26°23’13.5’’ E 098°39’36.3 ’’ 2.X.2010 (H= 2044m; LF) leg. Michael Langer, S. Naumann &amp; S. Löffler ” (ZFMK).</p> <p>Description of the holotype. Length: 8.0 mm, length of elytra: 6.4 mm, width: 4.8 mm. Body elongate eggshaped, dark brown, partly with greenish toment or shine, elytra partly yellowish brown with dark brown spots, antenna and ventral surface including femora yellowish, tibiae brown; dorsal surface dull and almost glabrous except a few single short setae on pronotum and elytra.</p> <p>Labroclypeus subtrapezoidal, distinctly wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins convex and convergent anteriorly, anterior angles acute; anterior margin deeply and widely emarginate medially; margins weakly reflexed; surface flat and moderately shiny, finely and moderately densely punctate, glabrous; frontoclypeal suture finely incised, weakly curved; smooth area anterior to eye small and flat, 1.3 times as wide as long; ocular canthus short and slender (1/4 of ocular diameter), impunctate, without terminal seta. Frons completely dull and flat, with fine and dense punctures, almost completely glabrous, with a few short setae beside eyes. Eyes small, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.48. Antenna with 10 antennomeres; club with three antennomeres, as long as remaining antennomeres combined and straight. Mentum strongly elevated, convex. Labrum strongly produced along the middle, deeply emarginate medially.</p> <p>Pronotum narrow and subtrapezoidal, widest at base, lateral margins evenly weakly convex and convergent anteriorly; anterior angles distinctly produced and acute; posterior angles blunt; anterior margin with a wide marginal line and weakly produced medially; surface densely and coarsely punctate, with sparse short yellow setae bent posteriorly and partly with minute setae in punctures; lateral and anterior margins sparsely setose; hypomeron carinate at base, not produced ventrally. Scutellum large, triangular, finely and densely punctate, on midline punctures less dense, glabrous.</p> <p>Elytra oval, widest in posterior third, striae finely impressed, finely and densely punctate; intervals flat, with fine, moderately dense punctures concentrated along striae; dark spots impunctate; with a few single, fine, short, white, adpressed setae, without longer, erect setae; epipleural edge fine, ending at moderately curved external apical angle of elytra, epipleura densely setose; apical margin chitinous, without a rime of minute microtrichomes (magnification 100x).</p> <p>Ventral surface dull, finely and densely punctate, almost glabrous, with a few single setae on metasternal disc; metacoxa glabrous, except a few short lateral setae; abdominal sternites with a transverse row of coarse punctures, each bearing a long seta, otherwise glabrous and very superficially sparsely punctate, ultimate sternite densely shortly setose; penultimate sternite at posterior margin with a wide membraneous rim being one third as long as sternite. Mesosternum between mesocoxae half as wide as the slender mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/ 1.44. Pygidium strongly convex and dull, yellow with small dark spots, finely and densely punctate, smooth midline narrow, with sparse short and longer setae on apical third.</p> <p>Legs slender; femora dull, with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and sparsely punctate between the rows; metafemur shiny, anterior margin acute, without a continuously serrated line behind anterior edge; ventral posterior margin not serrated and only weakly widened at apex, dorsal posterior margin completely but finely serrated, in basal half with a few long setae which are one third as long as metafemur width. Metatibia slender and long, widest shortly before apex, ratio of width/ length: 1/ 4.1, dorsally sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal group at middle, apical group at three quarters of metatibial length, basally with a few single, robust setae; external face sparsely and finely punctate, without longitudinal wrinkles; ventral margin serrated, with two extremely widely separated robust setae (abraded in holotype, but recognizable by their insertion point); medial face glabrous and smooth; apex interiorly near tarsal articulation concavely truncate. Tarsomeres ventrally with sparse, minute setae, dorsally smooth. Metatarsomeres ventrally glabrous, laterally carinate, with a strongly serrated ridge ventrally; first metatarsomere little longer than following tarsomere and as dorsal tibial spur. Protibia moderately long, bidentate, external margin smooth but bluntly extended at middle (lateral protibial teeth in holotype strongly abraded); anterior claws symmetrical, basal tooth of inner claw bluntly truncate as the external one.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 9A–C. Habitus: Fig. 9D. Female unknown.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Serica jirii Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species strongly resembles the species of the Serica nigroguttata group. However, S. jirii differs from them by the more robust and more convex body, the deeply and widely emarginate labrum, the lacking membraneous rim of apical elytral margin, the dark preapical elytral spot, as well as by the short parameres lacking the framing of left paramere by the ventral membrane of the right one.</p> <p>Etymology. The species is named (noun in singular genitive case) after one of its collectors Jiří Hájek (NMPC).</p> <p>Variation. Length: 8.0– 8.6 mm, length of elytra: 6.4 –6.5mm, width: 4.6–4.8 mm. Female: club only little shorter than in male; eyes as large as in male; pygidium weakly convex.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFF98FF82FF435A20FC2BFD8E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFF96FF83FF435BF3FBF1FC32.text	AE7687EAFF96FF83FF435BF3FBF1FC32.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica pangwa Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2022	<div><p>Serica pangwa Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>Figures 9E–H, 24</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “ Myanmar (Burma) Provinz Kachin State, Pangwa env. (LF) (H= 2450m) 28.IX.2010 N 25°37’42.3 ’’ E 098°23’22.5 ’’ leg. Michael Langer, S. Naumann &amp; S. Löffler / 1108 Asia Sericini spec. ” (ZFMK). Paratype: 1 ♂ “ Myanmar (Burma) Provinz Kachin State, Pangwa env. (LF) (H= 2450m) 28.IX.2010 N 25°37’42.3 ’’ E 098°23’22.5 ’’ leg. Michael Langer, S. Naumann &amp; S. Löffler ” (ZFMK).</p> <p>Description of the holotype. Length: 7.9 mm, length of elytra: 6.1 mm, width: 4.9 mm. Body elongate eggshaped, yellowish brown, head, pronotum, and scutellum dark brown, dorsal surface except dull frons shiny, partly with greenish shine, elytra with dark brown spots, antenna yellow; dorsal surface almost glabrous except a dense short erect setae on anterior pronotal disc and head.</p> <p>Labroclypeus subtrapezoidal, little wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins weakly convex and moderately convergent anteriorly, anterior angles moderately rounded; anterior margin distinctly but not deeply emarginate medially; margins weakly reflexed; surface flat and shiny, finely and moderately densely punctate, with a few short erect setae; frontoclypeal suture finely incised, weakly curved; smooth area anterior to eye small and flat, 1.3 times as wide as long; ocular canthus short and slender (1/4 of ocular diameter), impunctate, with a short terminal seta. Frons completely dull and flat, with fine and dense punctures, with sparse, short erect setae. Eyes small, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.5. Antenna with 10 antennomeres; club with three antennomeres, 1.1 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined and straight. Mentum strongly elevated, convex. Labrum moderately produced along middle, moderately emarginate medially.</p> <p>Pronotum wide and subtrapezoidal, widest at base, lateral margins evenly convex and strongly convergent anteriorly; anterior angles distinctly produced and acute; posterior angles strongly rounded; anterior margin with a wide marginal line and weakly produced medially; surface transversely impressed behind anterior margin and at middle resulting in two indistinct transversal sulci on each side of the pronotum, one anterior one posterior; surface irregularly densely and finely punctate, some areas on sulci lacking punctures, on anterior pronotal disc and beside anterior margin with dense short yellow setae partly erect partly bent posteriorly, minute setae in punctures absent; lateral and anterior margins sparsely setose; hypomeron indistinctly carinate at base. Scutellum large, triangular, finely and irregularly sparsely punctate, glabrous.</p> <p>Elytra oval, widest in posterior third, striae finely impressed, finely and densely punctate; intervals flat, with fine, sparse punctures concentrated along striae fusing partly to transverse wrinkles; dark spots impunctate; intervals with a few single, fine, short setae, otherwise glabrous; epipleural edge fine, ending at moderately curved external apical angle of elytra, epipleura densely setose; apical margin very narrowly membraneous, with an extremely fine rime of minute microtrichomes (magnification 100x).</p> <p>Ventral surface shiny, finely and densely punctate, almost glabrous, with a few single setae on metasternal disc; metacoxa glabrous, except a few short lateral setae; abdominal sternites with a transverse row of coarse punctures, each bearing a long seta, otherwise glabrous and very superficially sparsely punctate, ultimate sternite densely shortly setose; penultimate sternite at posterior margin with membraneous rim a quarter as long as sternite. Mesosternum between mesocoxae half as wide as the slender mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/ 1.28. Pygidium moderately convex and shiny, yellow with small dark spots, finely and moderately densely punctate, smooth midline narrow, with sparse long setae on apical third.</p> <p>Legs slender; femora dull, with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and sparsely punctate between the rows; metafemur shiny, anterior margin acute, without a continuously serrated line behind anterior edge; ventral posterior margin apically finely serrated and only weakly widened, dorsal posterior margin completely but finely serrated, in basal half with a few long setae which are one third as long as metafemur width. Metatibia slender and long, widest shortly before apex, ratio of width/ length: 1/ 4.2, dorsally sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal group shortly before middle, apical group at three quarters of metatibial length, basally with a few single, robust setae; external face sparsely and finely punctate, without longitudinal wrinkles; ventral margin serrated, with two extremely widely separated robust setae; medial face glabrous and smooth; apex interiorly near tarsal articulation concavely truncate. Tarsomeres ventrally with sparse, minute setae, dorsally smooth. Metatarsomeres ventrally glabrous, laterally carinate, with a strongly serrated ridge ventrally; first metatarsomere little longer than following tarsomere and as dorsal tibial spur. Protibia moderately long, bidentate, external margin smooth but bluntly extended at middle; anterior claws symmetrical, basal tooth of inner claw bluntly truncate as the external one.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 9E–G. Habitus: Fig. 9H. Female unknown.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Serica pangwa Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species differs from S. jirii Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species by the densly setose pronotal disc, the more transverse pronotum, the more oblong and less convex body, and last not least by the shape of aedeagus. The parameres, particularly the left one, are significantly longer in S. pangwa than in S. jirii.</p> <p>Etymology. The species is named (noun in apposition) after its type locality Pangwa.</p> <p>Variation. Length: 7.9–8.0 mm, length of elytra: 6.0– 6.1 mm, width: 4.5–4.9 mm.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFF96FF83FF435BF3FBF1FC32	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		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AE7687EAFF97FF81FF435AB4FBE7FD8E.text	AE7687EAFF97FF81FF435AB4FBE7FD8E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica jani Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2022	<div><p>Serica jani Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>Figures 10A–D, 24</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “ China: Zhejiang Prov., W Tiammu Shan (Mts.) reserve Immortal Peak; mountainous low forest, esp. <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=119.42403&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=30.349585" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 119.42403/lat 30.349585)">On</a> flowering <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=119.42403&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=30.349585" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 119.42403/lat 30.349585)">Castanea</a> sequini, 5.-6.vii.2017, 1500 m, 30°20’58.5’’N, 119°25’26.5’’E J. Hájek &amp; J. Růžička leg./ 1059 Asia Sericini spec. ” (NMPC). Paratypes: 1 ♂ “23.III.35 O. Piel / T’iemmu Shan Musée Heude/ Serica / Pachyserica sp 22” (IZAS), 1 ♂ “ Mt. Sha hu shan, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province 1957.VI.30 / Pachyserica sp 20” (IZAS), 1 ♂ “ Mt. Bao shi, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 1957.VI. 4 ” (IZAS).</p> <p>Description of the holotype. Length: 8.8 mm, length of elytra: 6.5 mm, width: 4.9 mm. Body elongate, dark brown, dull, partly with greenish toment, elytra in punctures reddish brown, antenna and legs reddish brown; dorsal surface almost glabrous except a single and short, white adpressed setae on pronotum and elytra.</p> <p>Labroclypeus subrectangular, little wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins weakly convex and convergent anteriorly, anterior angles moderately convex; anterior margin weakly emarginate medially; margins moderately reflexed; surface flat and moderately shiny, finely and densely punctate, partly punctures fusing to transverse wrinkles, with a few erect setae; frontoclypeal suture finely incised, weakly curved; smooth area anterior to eye small and flat, 1.5 times as wide as long; ocular canthus very short and slender (1/6 of ocular diameter), impunctate, with a short terminal seta. Frons completely dull and flat, with fine and dense punctures, with numerous fine and short, erect setae. Eyes large, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.79. Antenna with 9 antennomeres; club with three antennomeres, 1.3 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined and weakly reflexed. Mentum strongly elevated anteriorly, convex. Labrum weakly produced along middle, moderately emarginate medially.</p> <p>Pronotum transverse and subrectangular, widest in posterior third, lateral margins evenly weakly convex and convergent anteriorly as well posteriorly; anterior angles weakly produced and blunt, moderately rounded in the tip; posterior angles moderately rounded; anterior margin with robust marginal line and strongly produced medially; surface densely and finely punctate, along midline narrowly impunctate, with short or minute, pale, adpressed setae in punctures; lateral margins sparsely setose; hypomeron not carinate at base. Scutellum large, triangular, slightly impressed on each side, finely and densely punctate, on basal midline smooth, with minute setae in punctures.</p> <p>Elytra oval, widest in posterior third, striae finely impressed, finely and densely punctate; intervals flat, with fine, moderately dense punctures concentrated along striae; with a few single, fine, short, white, adpressed setae on all intervals; epipleural edge fine, ending at moderately curved external apical angle of elytra, epipleura densely setose; apical margin chitinous, without a rime of minute microtrichomes (magnification 100x).</p> <p>Ventral surface dull, finely and densely punctate, metasternal disc densely setose; metacoxa glabrous, except a few short lateral setae. Mesosternum between mesocoxae half as wide as the slender mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/ 1.25. Abdominal sternites with a transverse row of coarse punctures, each bearing a long seta, otherwise finely and shortly setose and finely densely punctate; penultimate sternite at posterior margin with a wide membraneous rim being one third as long as sternite. Pygidium strongly convex and dull, dark, in punctures yellow, finely and densely punctate, smooth midline narrow, with sparse short, mostly adpressed setae.</p> <p>Legs slender, shiny, pro- and mesofemur dull; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and sparsely punctate between the rows. Metafemur shiny, anterior margin acute, without a continuously serrated line behind anterior edge; ventral posterior margin serrated and only weakly widened at apex, dorsal posterior margin completely serrated, in basal half with a few long setae which are half as long as metafemur width. Metatibia slender and long, widest shortly before apex, ratio of width/ length: 1/3.6, dorsally sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal group at middle, apical group at three quarters of metatibial length, basally with a few single, robust setae; external face sparsely and finely punctate, with robust longitudinal wrinkles; ventral margin serrated, with three robust setae of which the two distal ones are widely separated; medial face glabrous and impunctate, but with robust longitudinal wrinkles; apex interiorly near tarsal articulation bluntly truncate. Tarsomeres ventrally with sparse, minute setae, dorsally smooth. Metatarsomeres ventrally glabrous, laterally and dorsally carinate, with a strongly serrated ridge ventrally; first metatarsomere as long as following two tarsomeres combined and twice as long as dorsal tibial spur. Protibia moderately long, bidentate, external margin smooth but bluntly extended at middle; anterior claws asymmetrical, basal tooth of inner claw widened and concavely truncate at apex.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 12A–C. Habitus: Fig. 12D. Female unknown.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Serica jani Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species strongly resembles the species of the subgenus Serica sharing the lacking carina of basal hypomeron and the asymmetric protarsal claws. Both characters are known to have been developed convergently several times within some groups, so more evidence is needed for the proper assignment of this species. Serica jani differs from the species of the subgenus Serica by the short, robust, and strongly arched phallobase (lateral view) which in this form is unknown in the subgenus Serica. The species of the latter do have a dorsoventrally flattened phallobase.</p> <p>Etymology. The species is named (noun in singular genitive case) after one of its collectors Jan Růžička (Prague).</p> <p>Variation. Length: 8.8–10.0 mm, length of elytra: 6.5–7.6 mm, width: 4.9–5.9 mm.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFF97FF81FF435AB4FBE7FD8E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFF95FF86FF435BF3FABDFE62.text	AE7687EAFF95FF86FF435BF3FABDFE62.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica jaroslavi Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2022	<div><p>Serica jaroslavi Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>Figures 10E–H, 24</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “ China, SW Zhejiang, 12.V.-5.VI. Fangyangshan, Huangmao Jian 27°53’N 119°11’E, 1500-1850m <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=119.183334&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=27.883333" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 119.183334/lat 27.883333)">Jaroslav Turna</a> leg., 2008” (ZFMK).</p> <p>Description of the holotype. Length: 7.5 mm, length of elytra: 6.0 mm, width: 4.1 mm. Body elongate, dark brown, dull, partly with greenish toment, legs reddish brown, elytra yellow brown with dark spots, in punctures lighter, antenna yellow; dorsal surface almost glabrous except a single and short, white adpressed setae on pronotum and elytra.</p> <p>Labroclypeus subtrapezoidal, little wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins weakly convex and convergent anteriorly, anterior angles weakly convex; anterior margin widely shallowly emarginate medially; margins moderately reflexed; surface flat and moderately shiny, finely and densely punctate, partly punctures fusing to transverse wrinkles, with numerous erect setae; frontoclypeal suture finely incised, weakly curved and slightly elevated; smooth area anterior to eye small and convex, as wide as long; ocular canthus short and slender (1/4 of ocular diameter), impunctate, with a short terminal seta. Frons completely dull and flat, with fine and dense punctures, with numerous fine and short, erect setae. Eyes moderately large, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.61. Antenna with 9 antennomeres; club with three antennomeres, 1.3 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined and weakly reflexed. Mentum strongly elevated anteriorly, convex. Labrum strongly produced along middle, narrowly but deeply emarginate medially.</p> <p>Pronotum narrow and subtrapezoidal, widest at base, lateral margins evenly and weakly convex and convergent anteriorly; anterior angles weakly produced and sharply pointed; posterior angles blunt; anterior margin straight, with robust marginal line; surface densely and finely punctate, along midline narrowly impunctate in basal half, with short or minute, pale, adpressed setae in punctures; lateral margins sparsely setose; hypomeron carinate at base, weakly produced ventrally. Scutellum large, triangular, slightly impressed on each side, finely and densely punctate, with minute setae in punctures.</p> <p>Elytra oval, widest at middle, striae finely impressed, finely and densely punctate; intervals flat, with fine, sparse punctures; with a few single, fine, short, white, adpressed setae on all intervals; epipleural edge fine, ending at moderately curved external apical angle of elytra, epipleura densely setose; apical margin narrowly membraneous, with a fine rime of minute microtrichomes (magnification 100x).</p> <p>Ventral surface dull, finely and densely punctate, densely setose; metacoxa glabrous, except a few short lateral setae. Mesosternum between mesocoxae half as wide as the slender mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/ 1.38. Abdominal sternites with a transverse row of coarse punctures, each bearing a long seta, otherwise finely densely punctate and finely shortly setose at middle of sternites, laterally setae less dense; penultimate sternite at posterior margin with a wide membraneous rim being one quarter as long as sternite. Pygidium strongly convex and dull, dark, in punctures yellow, finely and densely punctate, smooth midline narrow, with sparse, moderately long setae.</p> <p>Legs slender, shiny, pro- and mesofemur dull; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and sparsely punctate between the rows. Tarsi dorsally impunctate, ventrally with sparse short setae. Hind legs missing in holotype. Protibia moderately long, bidentate, external margin only weakly extended at middle; anterior claws asymmetrical, basal tooth of inner claw widened and concavely truncate at apex.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 10E–G. Habitus: Fig. 10H. Female unknown.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Serica jaroslavi Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species resembles somewhat the species of the Serica nigroguttata group, however, the dark preapical elytral spot is missing in this new species and the parameres are strongly different in length as often is the case in the subgenus Serica. From Serica albisetis Ahrens, 2005, which also possesses a basal lobe at the right paramere, Serica jaroslavi Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species differs also by the extremely short left paramere.</p> <p>Etymology. The species is named (noun in singular genitive case) after its collector, Jaroslav Turna.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFF95FF86FF435BF3FABDFE62	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		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AE7687EAFF92FF87FF435B5FFA87FDAA.text	AE7687EAFF92FF87FF435B5FFA87FDAA.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica shengtangshan Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2022	<div><p>Serica shengtangshan Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>Figures 11A–D, 24</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “ Mts. Shengtangshan, Jinxiu, Guangxi, 18.V.1999, 1970m, leg. Gao Mingyuan/ LW-157/ 1145 Asia Sericini spec. ” (IZAS).</p> <p>Description of the holotype. Length: 8.4 mm, length of elytra: 6.1 mm, width: 4.2 mm. Body elongate, dark brown, dull, partly with greenish toment, legs reddish brown, elytra yellow brown with dark spots, in punctures lighter, antenna yellow; dorsal surface almost glabrous except a single and short, white adpressed setae on pronotum and elytra.</p> <p>Labroclypeus subrectangular, little wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins straight and subparallel, anterior angles moderately convex; anterior margin widely and distinctly emarginate medially; margins moderately reflexed; surface flat and moderately shiny, finely and densely punctate, glabrous; frontoclypeal suture finely incised, weakly curved and slightly elevated; smooth area anterior to eye small and convex, 1.5 times as wide as long; ocular canthus short and slender (1/4 of ocular diameter), impunctate, with a short terminal seta. Frons completely dull and flat, with fine and dense punctures, with a few fine and long setae beside eyes and numerous short erect ones on disc. Eyes moderately large, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.54. Antenna with 9 antennomeres; club with three antennomeres, 1.7 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined and moderately reflexed. Mentum strongly elevated anteriorly, convex. Labrum moderately produced along middle, distinctly emarginate medially.</p> <p>Pronotum wide but subtrapezoidal, widest at base, lateral margins evenly convex and strongly convergent anteriorly; anterior angles moderately produced and sharply pointed; posterior angles strongly rounded; anterior margin straight, with robust but indistinct marginal line; surface densely and finely punctate, along midline narrowly impunctate in basal half, with minute, pale, adpressed setae in punctures, on sides with a few short setae; anterior and lateral margins sparsely setose; hypomeron carinate at base, not produced ventrally. Scutellum moderately large, triangular, finely and densely punctate, on midline impunctate, with minute setae in punctures.</p> <p>Elytra oval, widest at posterior third, striae finely impressed, finely and densely punctate; intervals flat, with fine, sparse punctures; with a few single, fine, short, white, adpressed setae on all intervals; epipleural edge fine, ending at moderately curved external apical angle of elytra, epipleura densely setose; apical margin narrowly membraneous, with a fine rime of minute microtrichomes (magnification 100x).</p> <p>Ventral surface dull, finely and densely punctate, densely setose; metacoxa glabrous, except a few short lateral setae. Mesosternum between mesocoxae half as wide as the slender mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/ 1.29. Abdominal sternites with a transverse row of coarse punctures, each bearing a long seta, otherwise glabrous except on the ultimate sternite being finely shortly setose; penultimate sternite at posterior margin with a wide membraneous rim being one quarter as long as sternite. Pygidium moderately convex and dull, dark, finely and densely punctate, smooth midline narrow, with sparse, moderately long setae.</p> <p>Legs slender, shiny, pro- and mesofemur dull; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and sparsely punctate between the rows. Metafemur shiny, anterior margin acute, without a continuously serrated line behind anterior edge; ventral posterior margin serrated and only weakly widened at apex, dorsal posterior margin completely serrated, in basal half with a few long setae which are half as long as metafemur width. Metatibia slender and long, widest shortly before apex, ratio of width/ length: 1/4.7, dorsally sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal group at one third, apical group at two thirds of metatibial length, basally with a few single, robust setae; external face sparsely and finely punctate, with a few superficial longitudinal wrinkles; ventral margin serrated, with two widely separated robust setae; medial face glabrous and impunctate; apex interiorly near tarsal articulation bluntly truncate. Tarsomeres ventrally with sparse, minute setae, dorsally smooth. Metatarsomeres ventrally glabrous, laterally and dorsally carinate, with a strongly serrated ridge ventrally; first metatarsomere little shorter than following two tarsomeres combined and twice as long as dorsal tibial spur. Protibia moderately long, bidentate, external margin smooth but bluntly extended at middle; anterior claws asymmetrical, basal tooth of inner claw widened and concavely truncate at apex.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 11A–C. Habitus: Fig. 11D. Female unknown.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Serica shengtangshan Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species differs from the similar S. albisetis Ahrens, 2005 by the left paramere having its dorsomedial tooth at basal third (not shortly before the apex as in S. albisetis).</p> <p>Etymology. The species is named (noun in apposition) after its type locality, Mts. Shengtangshan.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFF92FF87FF435B5FFA87FDAA	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		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AE7687EAFF93FF84FF435B17FB7EFDAA.text	AE7687EAFF93FF84FF435B17FB7EFDAA.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica zhenba Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2022	<div><p>Serica zhenba Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>Figures 11E–I, 24</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “ Zhenba, Shaanxi, 19.VII.1985, 1200m, leg. Li Fasheng / 1144 Asia Sericini spec. ” (CAU).</p> <p>Description of the holotype. Length: 9.0 mm, length of elytra: 6.5 mm, width: 5.0 mm. Body oval, dark brown, dull, partly with greenish toment, legs reddish brown, elytra yellowish brown with dark spots, in punctures lighter, antenna yellow; dorsal surface with numerous and short, white adpressed setae on pronotum and elytra.</p> <p>Labroclypeus subtrapezoidal, distinctly wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins weakly convex and convergent anteriorly, anterior angles strongly convex; anterior margin distinctly emarginate medially; margins moderately reflexed; surface flat and moderately shiny, finely and densely punctate, with numerous erect setae; frontoclypeal suture finely incised, weakly curved and slightly elevated; smooth area anterior to eye small and convex, as wide as long; ocular canthus short and slender (1/4 of ocular diameter), impunctate, with a short terminal seta. Frons completely dull and flat, with fine and dense punctures, with numerous fine and short, erect setae. Eyes moderately large, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.55. Antenna with 9 antennomeres; club with three antennomeres, 1.5 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined and weakly reflexed. Mentum strongly elevated anteriorly, convex. Labrum moderately produced medially, deeply emarginate medially.</p> <p>Pronotum wide and subtrapezoidal, widest at middle, lateral margins evenly and strongly convex and convergent anteriorly and posteriorly; anterior angles weakly produced and almost rectangular; posterior angles blunt; anterior margin straight, with robust marginal line; surface irregularly densely and finely punctate, along midline narrowly impunctate; with short, pale, adpressed setae, partly with minute setae in punctures; lateral margins sparsely setose; hypomeron carinate at base, weakly produced ventrally. Scutellum large, triangular, finely and densely punctate, with minute setae in punctures, impunctate on median base.</p> <p>Elytra oval, widest at middle, striae finely impressed, finely and densely punctate; intervals flat, with fine, sparse punctures; with a few single, fine, short, white, adpressed setae on all intervals; epipleural edge fine, ending at moderately curved external apical angle of elytra, epipleura densely setose; apical margin narrowly membraneous, with a fine rime of minute microtrichomes (magnification 100x).</p> <p>Ventral surface dull, finely and densely punctate, densely setose; metacoxa glabrous, except a few short lateral setae. Mesosternum between mesocoxae half as wide as the slender mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/ 1.35. Abdominal sternites with a transverse row of coarse punctures, each bearing a long seta, otherwise finely densely punctate and finely shortly setose at middle of sternites, laterally setae less dense; penultimate sternite at posterior margin with a membraneous rim being one quarter as long as sternite. Pygidium moderately convex and dull, dark, finely and densely punctate, smooth midline narrow, with sparse, moderately long setae.</p> <p>Legs slender, shiny, pro- and mesofemur dull; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and sparsely punctate between the rows. Metafemur dull, anterior margin acute, without a continuously serrated line behind anterior edge; ventral posterior margin serrated and only weakly widened at apex, dorsal posterior margin completely serrated, in basal half with a few long setae which are half as long as metafemur width. Metatibia slender and long, widest shortly before apex, ratio of width/ length: 1/4, dorsally sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal group at middle, apical group at three quarters of metatibial length, basally with a few single, robust setae; external face sparsely and finely punctate, with robust longitudinal wrinkles; ventral margin serrated, with three robust setae of which the two distal ones are widely separated; medial face glabrous and impunctate, but with robust longitudinal wrinkles; apex interiorly near tarsal articulation bluntly truncate. Tarsomeres ventrally with sparse, minute setae, dorsally smooth. Metatarsomeres lacking in holotype. Protibia moderately long, bidentate, external margin smooth but bluntly extended at middle; anterior claws asymmetrical, basal tooth of inner claw widened and concavely truncate at apex.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 11E–H. Habitus: Fig. 11I. Female unknown.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Serica zhenba Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species differs from the similar S. nanjiangana Ahrens, 2005 by the longer left paramere being more than half as long as the right paramere, and by the narrower basal lobe of the right paramere.</p> <p>Etymology. The species is named (noun in apposition) after its type locality, Zhenba, Shaanxi.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFF93FF84FF435B17FB7EFDAA	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFF91FF9AFF4359EBFBE7FED6.text	AE7687EAFF91FF9AFF4359EBFBE7FED6.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica dissimillima Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2022	<div><p>Serica dissimillima Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>Figures 12A–D, 21</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “ Jinzhong Road, Jinxiu, Guangxi, 10.V.1999, 1100m, leg. Yang Xingke / 1140 Asia Sericini spec. ” (IZAS). Paratype: 1 ♂ “ Datianding, Xinyi, Guangdong, 31.V.1984 / 1704m, light trap, leg. Liao Subai / LW-100” (ZFMK).</p> <p>Description of the holotype. Length: 9.5 mm, length of elytra: 7.4 mm, width: 5.1 mm. Body elongate, dark brown, dull, partly with greenish toment, legs reddish brown, elytra yellow brown with dark spots, in punctures lighter, antenna yellow; dorsal surface almost glabrous except a single and short, white adpressed setae on pronotum and elytra.</p> <p>Labroclypeus subtrapezoidal, little wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins convex and weakly convergent, anterior angles moderately convex; anterior margin distinctly emarginate medially; margins moderately reflexed; surface flat and shiny, finely and densely punctate, with transverse wrinkles and a few fine erect setae anteriorly; frontoclypeal suture finely incised, almost straight and slightly elevated; smooth area anterior to eye small and convex, 1.2 times as wide as long; ocular canthus short and slender (1/4 of ocular diameter), impunctate, without terminal seta. Frons completely dull and flat, with fine and dense punctures, with moderately dense, fine and short setae being bent posteriorly on disc and beside eyes beside eyes. Eyes small, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.56. Antenna with 9 antennomeres; club with three antennomeres, 1.2 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined and straight. Mentum strongly elevated anteriorly, convex. Labrum moderately produced along middle, distinctly emarginate medially.</p> <p>Pronotum wide but subtrapezoidal, widest shortly before base, lateral margins in anterior half weakly convex, almost straight and strongly convergent anteriorly, in basal half strongly convex; anterior angles moderately produced and sharp; posterior angles strongly rounded; anterior margin convexly produced medially, with robust, distinct marginal line; surface densely and finely punctate, with numerous short, white, scale-like, adpressed setae, partly only with minute setae; anterior and lateral margins almost glabrous; hypomeron not carinate at base. Scutellum moderately large, triangular, finely and densely punctate, median base impunctate, pilosity as in pronotum.</p> <p>Elytra oval, widest at posterior third, striae finely impressed, finely and densely punctate; intervals flat, with fine, moderately dense punctures; with a few single, scale-like, short, white, adpressed setae on intervals; epipleural edge fine, ending at moderately curved external apical angle of elytra, epipleura densely setose; apical margin narrowly membraneous, with a fine rime of minute microtrichomes (magnification 100x).</p> <p>Ventral surface dull, finely and densely punctate, densely setose; metacoxa glabrous, except a few short lateral setae. Mesosternum between mesocoxae half as wide as the slender mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/ 1.29. Abdominal sternites with a transverse row of coarse punctures, each bearing a long seta, otherwise glabrous except on the ultimate sternite being finely shortly setose; penultimate sternite at posterior margin with a wide membraneous rim being one quarter as long as sternite. Pygidium strongly convex but short, dull, dark, finely and densely punctate, smooth midline basally wide, with sparse, white, scale-like setae.</p> <p>Legs slender, shiny, pro- and mesofemur dull; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and sparsely punctate between the rows. Metafemur shiny, anterior margin acute, without a continuously serrated line behind anterior edge; ventral posterior margin serrated and only weakly widened at apex, dorsal posterior margin completely serrated, in basal half with a few long setae which are half as long as metafemur width. Metatibia slender and long, widest shortly before apex, ratio of width/ length: 1/4.2, dorsally sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal group at one third, apical group at two thirds of metatibial length, basally with a few single, robust setae; external face sparsely and finely punctate, with robust longitudinal wrinkles; ventral margin serrated, with two widely separated robust setae; medial face glabrous, impunctate but wrinkled; apex interiorly near tarsal articulation bluntly truncate. Tarsomeres ventrally with sparse, minute setae, with a few fine punctures dorsally. Metatarsomeres ventrally glabrous, laterally and dorsally carinate, with a strongly serrated ridge ventrally; first metatarsomere as long as following two tarsomeres combined and almost twice as long as dorsal tibial spur. Protibia moderately long, bidentate, external margin smooth but bluntly extended at middle; protarsal claws lacking in holo- and paratype.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 12A–C. Habitus: Fig. 12D. Female unknown.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Serica dissimillima Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species differs from all other Serica species by the particular shape of aedeagus, having the parameres strongly asymmetrically inserted and a dorsomedial apical apophysis in phallobase covering the base of the parameres (dorsal view). In general appearance it resemlbles strongly to the other Chinese Taiwanoserica species, however, the parameres are simple and not subdivided in dorsal and ventral lobe; also, the hypomeron of prothorax in not carinate, a character which is typical for Serica sensu stricto.</p> <p>Etymology. The name of the new species is derrived from superlative of ‘ dissimile ’ (Latin), dissimilar, with reference to the dissimilar aedeagus morphology.</p> <p>Variation. Length: 9.5–10.9 mm, length of elytra: 7.4–8.4 mm, width: 5.1–6.1 mm.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFF91FF9AFF4359EBFBE7FED6	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFF8EFF98FF435FC6FA08FDD6.text	AE7687EAFF8EFF98FF435FC6FA08FDD6.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica ziqingi Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2022	<div><p>Serica ziqingi Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>Figures 12E–H, 24</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “ Mts. Maoershan, Guangxi, 15.VII.1985, 1100m, leg. Wang Ziqing / LW- 140/ 1147 Asia Sericini spec. ” (IZAS).</p> <p>Description of the holotype. Length: 8.1 mm, length of elytra: 6.2 mm, width: 4.8 mm. Body elongate, dark brown, dull, partly with greenish shine or toment, labroclypeus, anterior frons and anterior pronotum shiny; ventral surface and legs reddish brown; elytra with yellow spots, in punctures lighter, antenna yellow; dorsal surface almost glabrous except a single and short, white adpressed setae on pronotum and elytra.</p> <p>Labroclypeus subtrapezoidal, wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins convex and strongly convergent, anterior angles blunt; anterior margin widely and distinctly emarginate medially; margins moderately reflexed; surface flat, finely and densely punctate, with numerous erect setae; frontoclypeal suture finely incised, weakly curved and slightly elevated; smooth area anterior to eye small and convex, as wide as long; ocular canthus short and slender (1/4 of ocular diameter), impunctate, with a short terminal seta. Frons dull only in posterior half, flat, with fine and dense punctures, with fine and long setae beside eyes and on disc. Eyes small, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.55. Antenna with 10 antennomeres; club with three antennomeres, 0.8 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined and straight. Mentum strongly elevated anteriorly, convex. Labrum moderately produced along middle, distinctly emarginate medially.</p> <p>Pronotum wide but subtrapezoidal, widest shortly before base, lateral margins evenly convex and strongly convergent anteriorly, and slightly also posteriorly; anterior angles moderately produced and sharp; posterior angles blunt; anterior margin medially strongly convex, with indistinct marginal line; surface finely and densely but irregularly punctate, along midline narrowly impunctate in basal half, partly punctures fusing with each other rugosely, with a shallow impression on each side on disc; surface with minute or short, pale, adpressed setae in punctures; anterior and lateral margins sparsely setose; along base narrowly with dull toment; hypomeron carinate at base, weakly produced ventrally. Scutellum moderately large, triangular, finely and very densely punctate, on basal midline impunctate, with minute setae in punctures.</p> <p>Elytra oval, widest at posterior third, striae finely impressed, finely and densely punctate; intervals flat, with fine, sparse punctures; with a few single, fine, short, white, erect setae on each interval; epipleural edge fine, ending at moderately curved external apical angle of elytra, epipleura densely setose; apical margin narrowly membraneous, with a fine rime of minute microtrichomes (magnification 100x).</p> <p>Ventral surface dull, almost glabrous; metacoxa with a few short lateral setae. Mesosternum between mesocoxae half as wide as the slender mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/ 1.45. Abdominal sternites with a transverse row of coarse punctures, each bearing a long seta, otherwise glabrous; penultimate sternite at posterior margin with a wide membraneous rim being one quarter as long as sternite. Pygidium moderately convex and dull, dark with numerous yellow spots, finely and densely punctate, smooth midline narrow, with sparse, moderately long setae on apical half.</p> <p>Legs slender, shiny, pro- and mesofemur dull; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and sparsely punctate between the rows. Posterior legs missing in holotype. Protibia moderately long, bidentate, external margin smooth, weakly extended at middle; anterior claws symmetrical, basal tooth of inner claw sharply pointed at apex.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 12E–G. Habitus: Fig. 12H. Female unknown.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Serica ziqingi Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species differs from the other Serica sensu lato species by the short antennal club in male, the particular mrohology of aedeagus, with the parameres bein almost as long as the phallobase and being both curved externally. It resembles somewhat the species of the Serica nigroguttata group or Taiwanoserica, but from both it differs by the shiny head and pronotum.</p> <p>Etymology. The species is named (noun in nominative genitive case) after its collector, Wang Ziqing.</p> <p>Key to species of Serica velutina group (♂) (from Ahrens 2005, extended):</p> <p>1 External lateral margin of protibia smooth.................................................................. 4</p> <p>- External lateral margin of protibia serrated................................................................. 2</p> <p>2 Parameres long and narrow............................................................................. 9</p> <p>- Parameres short and moderately wide, at maximum half as long as phallobase..................................... 3</p> <p>3 Right paramere strongly bent at middle (lateral view), dorsal and a ventral distal lobe widely fused at base; left paramere short and circular in cross-section in apical half....................... S. tengchongana Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>- Right paramere with well separated and large basal lobe; left paramere slightly longer and blade-like widened in apical half....................................................... S. allotengchongana Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>4 Sixths abdominal sternite medially as long as the preceding sternite............................................. 5</p> <p>- Sixths abdominal sternite medially strongly shortened, half as long as the preceding sternite.......................... 6</p> <p>5 Parameres equal in length..................................................... S. baiyungshanica Ahrens, 2005</p> <p>- Left paramere shortened............................................................. S. velutina Arrow, 1946</p> <p>6 Parameres equal in length............................................................ S. hirtella Ahrens, 2005</p> <p>- Left paramere moderately shortened...................................................................... 7</p> <p>7 Dorsal lobe of the right paramere is wide and short. Left paramere dorsoventrally less extended and straight............................................................................................... S. deuvei Ahrens, 2005</p> <p>- Dorsal lobe of the right paramere is narrow and long. Left paramere dorsoventrally more extended and slightly curved inward............................................................................................... 8</p> <p>8 Subapical portion of right paramere narrower, flat, its dorsal lobe shorter; left paramere at base wide (lateral view)................................................................................. S. langeri Ahrens &amp; Fabrizi, 2011</p> <p>- Subapical portion of right paramere wider and more concavely arched, its dorsal lobe longer; left paramere at base narrow (lateral view)..................................................... S. emaw Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>9 Parameres equal in length. Phallobase without tubercles...................................................... 10</p> <p>- Left paramere moderately shortened. Phallobase with robust preapical tubercles.................................. 11</p> <p>10 Left paramere long and strongly curved (in dorsal view abruptly bent basally); right paramere wider in basal half; dorsoapical portion of phallobase weakly convex (all lateral view).................................. S. lijiangensis Ahrens, 2005</p> <p>- Left paramere shorter and less curved (in dorsal view almost straight); right paramere narrower; dorsoapical portion of phallobase more strongly convex (all lateral view)................................... S. pilumna Ahrens &amp; Fabrizi, 2009</p> <p>11 Phallobase dorsally with two large tubercles. Right paramere strongly curved (lateral view). Left paramere with a subapical small lateral tooth.................................................................. S. bicornis Ahrens, 2005</p> <p>- Phallobase ventrally with two large tubercles. Right paramere moderately curved (lateral view). Left paramere narrow, with a blunt lateral tooth at middle............................... S. ventrituberculata Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFF8EFF98FF435FC6FA08FDD6	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFF8CFF9EFF435BC4FA05FE1F.text	AE7687EAFF8CFF9EFF435BC4FA05FE1F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica tengchongana Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2022	<div><p>Serica tengchongana Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>Figures 13A–D, 23</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “ China, W Yunnan prov., mts. 60km E Tengchong, 2200m, 19.-22.v.2006, S. Murzin &amp; I. Shokhin / 853 Sericini: Asia spec.” (CP). Paratypes: 3 ♂♂, 1 ♀ “ China, W Yunnan prov., mts. 60km E Tengchong, 2200m, 19.-22.v.2006, S. Murzin &amp; I. Shokhin ” (CP, ZFMK).</p> <p>Description of the holotype. Length: 9.4 mm, length of elytra: 7.2 mm, width: 5.4 mm. Body elongate eggshaped, dark brown, partly with greenish toment or shine, elytra with dark spots, antenna yellowish, legs brown; dorsal surface dull and densely covered with short yellow setae being bent posteriorly.</p> <p>Labroclypeus subtrapezoidal, distinctly wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins almost straight and convergent anteriorly, anterior angles almost acute but rounded in tip, anteriorly deeply but not widely emarginate medially; margins moderately reflexed; surface flat and shiny, finely and densely punctate, finely densely setose, behind anterior margin glabrous; frontoclypeal suture finely incised, weakly convex; smooth area anterior to eye large and flat, approximately twice as wide as long; ocular canthus moderately long and slender (1/3 of ocular diameter), with a few fine punctures bearing each a short seta. Frons completely dull and flat, with fine and very dense punctures, evenly covered with short yellow setae being bent backwards and longer erect setae. Eyes small, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.49. Antenna with ten antennomeres; antennomeres three to five slightly wider than long, antennomere six and seven transverse and short; club with three antennomeres, 1.2 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined and straight. Mentum weakly elevated, anteriorly flattened. Labrum transverse, short, strongly produced along the middle, moderately emarginate medially.</p> <p>Pronotum subtrapezoidal, widest shortly before base, lateral margins evenly convex and strongly convergent anteriorly; anterior angles distinctly produced and acute; posterior angles strongly rounded; anterior margin medially with a fine marginal line and very weakly produced medially; surface on disc densely and coarsely punctate, almost glabrous, punctures on sides less dense and with dense short yellow setae; lateral margins sparsely setose; hypomeron carinate at base, but not produced ventrally. Scutellum large, triangular, finely and very densely punctate, pilosity as in lateral pronotum.</p> <p>Elytra oval, widest at middle, striae indistinctly impressed, finely and densely punctate; intervals flat, with fine, very dense punctures; dark spots impunctate or with less dense punctures, with fine, short pilosity as in pronotum, without longer, erect setae; epipleural edge fine, ending at moderately curved external apical angle of elytra, epipleura densely setose, apical margin with a very fine membranous rim composed of minute microtrichomes (magnification 100x).</p> <p>Ventral surface dull, finely and densely punctate, including metacoxa and abdominal sternites densely shortly setose; abdominal sternites with a transverse row of coarse punctures, each bearing a long seta, otherwise shortly setose as rest of ventral surface; ultimate sternite at middle 1.5 times as long as penultimate one. Mesosternum between mesocoxae half as wide as the slender mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/ 1.44. Pygidium strongly convex and dull, finely and densely punctate, smooth midline narrow, with dense short setae, without long, erect setae.</p> <p>Legs slender; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, coarsely and densely punctate between the rows, with robust setae on basal half; metafemur shiny, anterior margin acute, without a continuously serrated line behind anterior edge, posterior margin ventrally serrated in apical half and not widened, dorsal posterior margin completely serrated, in basal half with a few long setae which are half as long as width of metafemur. Metatibia slender and long, widest shortly before apex, ratio of width/ length: 1/ 4.9, dorsally sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal group shortly before the middle, apical group at three quarters of metatibial length, basally with a few single, robust setae; external face impunctate; ventral margin serrated, with two very widely separated robust setae; medial face glabrous and smooth; apex interiorly near tarsal articulation concavely truncate. Tarsomeres ventrally with sparse, minute setae, dorsally smooth. Metatarsomeres ventrally glabrous, laterally and dorsally carinate, with a strongly serrated ridge ventrally; first metatarsomere as long as following two tarsomeres combined and twice as long as dorsal tibial spur; mesotarsomeres not carinate. Protibia moderately long, bidentate, external margin serrate, with a few small teeth at base, anterior claws symmetrical, basal tooth of inner claw bluntly truncate as the external one.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 13A–C. Habitus: Fig. 7D.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Serica tengchongana Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species differs from S. deuvei Ahrens, 2005 and S. hirtella Ahrens, 2005 by the serrated external margin of protibia, as well as by the different shape of parameres: the right paramere is strongly bent at middle (lateral view) being subdivided into a dorsal lobe and a ventral distal one.</p> <p>Etymology. The species is named (adjective in nominative singular case) according to its vicinity to Tengchong.</p> <p>Variation. Length: 9.4–12.11 mm, length of elytra: 7.2–9.5 mm, width: 5.4 mm. Female: antennal club short, little shorter than remaining antennomeres combined; pygidium at apex strongly convex; eyes as large as in male.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFF8CFF9EFF435BC4FA05FE1F	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFF8AFF9FFF435882FC39FDD3.text	AE7687EAFF8AFF9FFF435882FC39FDD3.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica allotengchongana Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2022	<div><p>Serica allotengchongana Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>Figures 13E–H, 23</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “ China, W Yunnan prov., mts. 60km E Tengchong, 2200m, 19.-22.v.2006, S. Murzin &amp; I. Shokhin / 854 Sericini: Asia spec.” (CP).</p> <p>Description of the holotype. Length: 9.2 mm, length of elytra: 7.0 mm, width: 5.5 mm.</p> <p>Body elongate egg-shaped, dark brown, partly with greenish toment or shine, elytra with dark spots, antenna yellowish, legs brown; dorsal surface dull and densely covered with short yellow setae being bent posteriorly.</p> <p>Labroclypeus subtrapezoidal, distinctly wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins convex and strongly convergent anteriorly, anterior angles acute; anterior margin deeply and widely emarginate medially; margins weakly reflexed; surface flat and shiny, finely and densely punctate, finely densely setose, behind anterior margin glabrous; frontoclypeal suture finely incised, weakly convex; smooth area anterior to eye large and flat, as wide as long; ocular canthus moderately long and slender (1/3 of ocular diameter), with a few fine punctures bearing each a short seta. Frons completely dull and flat, with fine and very dense punctures, evenly covered with short yellow setae being bent backwards and longer erect setae. Eyes small, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.56. Antenna with ten antennomeres; antennomeres three to five slightly wider than long, antennomere six and seven transverse and short; club with three antennomeres, 1.2 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined and straight. Mentum weakly elevated, anteriorly flattened. Labrum transverse, short, strongly produced along the middle, moderately emarginate medially.</p> <p>Pronotum subtrapezoidal, widest shortly before base, lateral margins evenly convex and strongly convergent anteriorly; anterior angles distinctly produced and acute; posterior angles strongly rounded; anterior margin medially with a fine marginal line and very weakly produced medially; surface densely and coarsely punctate, with dense short yellow setae bent posteriorly; lateral margins sparsely setose; hypomeron carinate at base, weakly produced ventrally. Scutellum large, triangular, finely and very densely punctate, basal midline smooth, pilosity as in lateral pronotum.</p> <p>Elytra oval, widest at middle, striae indistinctly impressed, finely and densely punctate; intervals flat, with fine, very dense punctures; dark spots impunctate or with less dense punctures, with fine, short pilosity as in pronotum, without longer, erect setae; epipleural edge fine, ending at moderately curved external apical angle of elytra, epipleura densely setose, apical margin with a very fine membranous rim composed of minute microtrichomes (magnification 100x).</p> <p>Ventral surface dull, finely and densely punctate, including metacoxa and abdominal sternites densely shortly setose; abdominal sternites with a transverse row of coarse punctures, each bearing a long seta, otherwise shortly setose as rest of ventral surface; ultimate sternite at middle 1.5 times as long as penultimate one. Mesosternum between mesocoxae half as wide as the slender mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/ 1.49. Pygidium strongly convex and dull, finely and densely punctate, smooth midline narrow, with dense short setae, without long, erect setae.</p> <p>Legs slender; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, coarsely and densely punctate between the rows, with robust setae on basal half; metafemur shiny, anterior margin acute, without a continuously serrated line behind anterior edge, posterior margin ventrally serrated in apical half and not widened, dorsal posterior margin completely serrated, in basal half with a few long setae which are half as long as width of metafemur. Metatibia slender and long, widest shortly before apex, ratio of width/ length: 1/ 4.4, dorsally sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal group at middle, apical group at three quarters of metatibial length, basally with a few single, robust setae; external face impunctate, on dorsal portion with a few superficial wrinkles; ventral margin serrated, with two very widely separated robust setae; medial face glabrous and smooth; apex interiorly near tarsal articulation concavely truncate. Tarsomeres ventrally with sparse, minute setae, dorsally smooth. Metatarsomeres ventrally glabrous, laterally and dorsally carinate, with a strongly serrated ridge ventrally; first metatarsomere as long as following two tarsomeres combined and twice as long as dorsal tibial spur; mesotarsomeres not carinate. Protibia moderately long, bidentate, external margin serrate, with a few small teeth at base, anterior claws symmetrical, basal tooth of inner claw bluntly truncate as the external one.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 13E–G. Habitus: Fig. 13H. Female unknown.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Serica alltengchongensis Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species differs from S. tengchongensis Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species by the shape of parameres: the right paramere has a separately developed, large basal lobe, the left paramere is slightly longer than that of S. tengchongensis and it is blade-like widened in apical half.</p> <p>Etymology. The name of the species is derived from the combined Greek prefix ‘ allo -’ (other) and the species name ‘ tengchongensis ’, with reference to the similarity to this species.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFF8AFF9FFF435882FC39FDD3	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFF8BFF9DFF435BCFFF73FEAF.text	AE7687EAFF8BFF9DFF435BCFFF73FEAF.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica emaw Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2022	<div><p>Serica emaw Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>Figures 14A–D, 23</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “ Myanmar (Burma) Provinz Kachin State; Mt. Emaw Bum nach Kamphant; Waldcamp-Holzmeiler 26°09‘232‘‘N, 98°31‘164‘‘E; 2358m, 28.5.2006; leg. Michael Langer, Stefan Naumann, Swen Löffler; Coll. M. Langer / 1130 Asia Sericini spec. ” (ZFMK).</p> <p>Description of the holotype. Length: 7.8 mm, length of elytra: 6.1 mm, width: 4.9 mm. Body elongate eggshaped, dark reddish brown, partly with greenish toment, elytra with dark spots, antenna yellowish, legs brown; dorsal surface dull and densely covered with short yellow setae being bent posteriorly.</p> <p>Labroclypeus subtrapezoidal, distinctly wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins convex and strongly convergent anteriorly, anterior angles acute; anterior margin deeply and widely emarginate medially; margins weakly reflexed; surface flat and shiny, finely and densely punctate, finely densely setose, behind anterior margin glabrous; frontoclypeal suture finely incised, weakly convex; smooth area anterior to eye large and flat, as wide as long; ocular canthus moderately long and slender (1/3 of ocular diameter), with a few fine punctures bearing each a short seta. Frons completely dull and flat, with fine and very dense punctures, evenly covered with short yellow setae being bent backwards and longer erect setae. Eyes small, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.47. Antenna with ten antennomeres; antennomeres three to five slightly wider than long, antennomere six and seven transverse and short; club with three antennomeres, 1.2 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined and straight. Mentum weakly elevated, anteriorly flattened. Labrum transverse, short, strongly produced along the middle, moderately emarginate medially.</p> <p>Pronotum subtrapezoidal, widest shortly before base, lateral margins evenly convex and strongly convergent anteriorly; anterior angles distinctly produced and acute; posterior angles strongly rounded; anterior margin medially with a fine marginal line and very weakly produced medially; surface densely and coarsely punctate, with dense short yellow setae bent posteriorly; lateral margins sparsely setose; hypomeron carinate at base, weakly produced ventrally. Scutellum large, triangular, finely and very densely punctate, basal midline smooth, pilosity as in lateral pronotum.</p> <p>Elytra oval, widest at middle, striae indistinctly impressed, finely and densely punctate; intervals flat, with fine, very dense punctures; dark spots impunctate or with less dense punctures, with fine, short pilosity as in pronotum, without longer, erect setae; epipleural edge fine, ending at moderately curved external apical angle of elytra, epipleura densely setose, apical margin with a very fine membranous rim composed of minute microtrichomes (magnification 100x).</p> <p>Ventral surface dull, finely and densely punctate, including metacoxa and abdominal sternites densely shortly setose; abdominal sternites with a transverse row of coarse punctures, each bearing a long seta, otherwise shortly setose as rest of ventral surface; ultimate sternite at middle 1.5 times as long as penultimate one. Mesosternum between mesocoxae half as wide as the slender mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/ 1.54. Pygidium strongly convex and dull, finely and densely punctate, smooth midline narrow, with dense short setae, without long, erect setae.</p> <p>Legs slender; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, coarsely and densely punctate between the rows, with robust setae on basal half; metafemur shiny, anterior margin acute, without a continuously serrated line behind anterior edge, posterior margin ventrally serrated in apical half and not widened, dorsal posterior margin completely serrated, in basal half with a few long setae which are half as long as width of metafemur. Metatibia slender and long, widest shortly before apex, ratio of width/ length: 1/ 4.5, dorsally sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal group shortly before middle, apical group at three quarters of metatibial length, basally with a few single, robust setae; external face impunctate, on dorsal portion with a few superficial wrinkles; ventral margin serrated, with two very widely separated robust setae; medial face glabrous and smooth; apex interiorly near tarsal articulation concavely truncate. Tarsomeres ventrally with sparse, minute setae, dorsally smooth. Metatarsomeres ventrally glabrous, laterally and dorsally carinate, with a strongly serrated ridge ventrally; first metatarsomere as long as following two tarsomeres combined and twice as long as dorsal tibial spur; mesotarsomeres not carinate. Protibia moderately long, bidentate, external margin serrate, with a few small teeth at base, anterior claws symmetrical, basal tooth of inner claw bluntly truncate as the external one.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 14A–C. Habitus: Fig. 14D. Female unknown.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Serica emaw Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species differs from S. langeri Ahrens &amp; Fabrizi, 2011 by the shape of parameres: the right paramere is wider also in subapical portion and more concavely arched; the left paramere is at base much more narrow (lateral view).</p> <p>Etymology. The name of the species (noun in apposition) is derived from it type locality close to the Mt. Emaw.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFF8BFF9DFF435BCFFF73FEAF	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFF89FF93FF435812FA09FE8C.text	AE7687EAFF89FF93FF435812FA09FE8C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica ventrituberculata Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2022	<div><p>Serica ventrituberculata Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>Figures 14E–H, 23</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “ Guance Zhan, Wuyipeng, Wolongzhen, Sichuan, 24.VII.2004, 2560m, leg. Zhang Yong ” (IZAS). Paratypes: 1 ♂, 1 ♀ “ Ebian County, 25.VI.1981, leg. Shan Shigui” (IZAS), 1 ♂ “ Mts. Maoershan, Guangxi, 14.VII.1985, 1900m, leg. Liao Subai ” (IZAS), 1 ♂ “ Wolong Guangou, Wolong, Sichuan, 20.VII.2004, 2150m, light trap, leg. Zhang Yong ” (IZAS).</p> <p>Description of the holotype. Length: 9.4 mm, length of elytra: 7.1 mm, width: 5.1 mm. Body elongate eggshaped, dark reddish brown, partly with greenish toment, elytra with dark spots, even intervals almost completely dark, antenna yellowish, legs brown; dorsal surface dull and densely covered with short yellow setae being bent posteriorly.</p> <p>Labroclypeus subtrapezoidal, distinctly wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins convex and strongly convergent anteriorly, anterior angles acute; anterior margin deeply and widely emarginate medially; margins weakly reflexed; surface flat and shiny, finely and densely punctate, finely densely setose, behind anterior margin glabrous; frontoclypeal suture finely incised, weakly convex; smooth area anterior to eye large and flat, as wide as long; ocular canthus moderately long and slender (1/3 of ocular diameter), with a few fine punctures bearing each a short seta. Frons completely dull and flat, with fine and very dense punctures, evenly covered with short yellow setae being bent backwards and longer erect setae. Eyes small, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.5. Antenna with ten antennomeres; antennomeres three to five slightly wider than long, antennomere six and seven transverse and short; club with three antennomeres, 1.1 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined and straight. Mentum weakly elevated, anteriorly flattened. Labrum transverse, short, strongly produced along the middle, moderately emarginate medially.</p> <p>Pronotum subtrapezoidal, widest shortly before base, lateral margins evenly convex and strongly convergent anteriorly; anterior angles distinctly produced and acute; posterior angles strongly rounded; anterior margin medially with a fine marginal line and very weakly produced medially; surface densely and coarsely punctate, with dense short yellow setae bent posteriorly; lateral margins sparsely setose; hypomeron carinate at base, weakly produced ventrally. Scutellum large, triangular, finely and very densely punctate, basal midline smooth, pilosity as in lateral pronotum.</p> <p>Elytra oval, widest at middle, striae indistinctly impressed, finely and densely punctate; intervals flat, with fine, very dense punctures; dark spots impunctate or with less dense punctures, with fine, short pilosity as in pronotum, without longer, erect setae; epipleural edge fine, ending at moderately curved external apical angle of elytra, epipleura densely setose, apical margin with a very fine membranous rim composed of minute microtrichomes (magnification 100x).</p> <p>Ventral surface dull, finely and densely punctate, including metacoxa and abdominal sternites densely shortly setose; abdominal sternites with a transverse row of coarse punctures, each bearing a long seta, otherwise shortly setose as rest of ventral surface; ultimate sternite at middle 1.5 times as long as penultimate one. Mesosternum between mesocoxae half as wide as the slender mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/ 1.38. Pygidium moderately convex and dull, finely and densely punctate, smooth midline narrow, with dense short setae.</p> <p>Legs slender; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, coarsely and densely punctate between the rows, with robust setae on basal half; metafemur shiny, anterior margin acute, without a continuously serrated line behind anterior edge, posterior margin ventrally serrated in apical half and not widened, dorsal posterior margin completely serrated, in basal half with a few long setae which are half as long as width of metafemur. Metatibia slender and long, widest shortly before apex, ratio of width/ length: 1/ 4.6, dorsally sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal group shortly before middle, apical group at three quarters of metatibial length, basally with a few single, robust setae; external face impunctate, with dense superficial longitudinal wrinkles; ventral margin serrated, with two very widely separated robust setae; medial face glabrous and smooth; apex interiorly near tarsal articulation concavely truncate. Tarsomeres ventrally with sparse, minute setae, dorsally smooth. Metatarsomeres ventrally glabrous, laterally and dorsally carinate, with a strongly serrated ridge ventrally; first metatarsomere as long as following two tarsomeres combined and almost twice as long as dorsal tibial spur; mesotarsomeres not carinate. Protibia moderately long, bidentate, external margin serrate, with a few small teeth at base, anterior claws symmetrical, basal tooth of inner claw bluntly truncate as the external one.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 14E–G. Habitus: Fig. 14H.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Serica ventrituberculata Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species differs from S. bicornis Ahrens, 2005 by the shape of parameres: the right paramere is almost straight (lateral view) and the left paramere has its lateral tooth almost at middle rather than before apex, the basal portion is almost twice as wide as the dorsal one (while it is almost subequal in width in S. bicornis); the phallobase is dorsally without tubercles, but instead it has ventrally before apex a pair of robust tubercles.</p> <p>Etymology. The name of the species (adjective in nominative case singular) is derived from the combined Latin words ‘ ventris ’ (venter) and ‘ tuberculatus ’ (i.e., having tubercles), with reference on the two ventral tubercles of phallobase.</p> <p>Variation. Length: 8.1–10.0 mm, length of elytra: 6.5–7.6 mm, width: 4.5–5.1 mm. Female: antennal club short, little shorter than remaining antennomeres combined; pygidium at apex strongly convex; eyes as large as in male.</p> <p>Key to species of Serica nigroguttata group (♂) (from Ahrens 2007, extended):</p> <p>1 Pilosity of elytra fine, long and dense. Median apical sinuation of phallobase partially sclerotized and with a pointed lamella................................................................................ S. subpilosa Ahrens, 2007</p> <p>- Pilosity of elytra short and moderately dense or sparse........................................................ 2</p> <p>2 Anterior margin of labroclypeus medially deeply sinuated..................................................... 3</p> <p>- Anterior margin of labroclypeus medially moderately sinuated................................................. 9</p> <p>3 Pilosity of metasternum seta-like......................................................................... 4</p> <p>- Pilosity of metasternum scale-like........................................................................ 6</p> <p>4 Antennal club shorter than remaining antennomeres combined. Parameres short, less than half as long as phallobase............................................................................. S. brevitarsis (Kobayashi &amp; Yu, 1993)</p> <p>- Antennal club longer shorter than remaining antennomeres combined. Parameres long, about half as long as phallobase.... 5</p> <p>5 Anterior angles of pronotum rounded in the tip. Protarsal claws asymmetrical, basal lobe of inner claw truncated sharply..................................................................................... S. jindrai Ahrens, 2007</p> <p>- Anterior angles of pronotum sharply pointed. Protarsal claws symmetrical...................... S. wrasei Ahrens, 2007</p> <p>6 Antennal clavus twice as long remaining antennomeres combined.......................... S. inaequalis Ahrens, 2007</p> <p>- Antennal clavus as long or little longer than remaining antennomeres combined.................................... 7</p> <p>7 Anterior angles of pronotum distinctly protruding. Apex of both parameres straight............... S. tryznai Ahrens, 2007</p> <p>- Anterior angles of pronotum weakly protruding............................................................. 8</p> <p>8 Apex of left paramere hook-like and curved externally, dorsomedian margin of left paramere simple. Right paramere apically simply narrowed............................................................. S. parasquamosa Ahrens, 2007</p> <p>- Apex of left paramere indistinct and fusing with the sclerotized ventral membrane, without hook, dorsomedian margin of left paramere with a robust internal tooth at middle of paramere length. Right paramere apically widened, with blunt lateral angulation at apex..................................................... S. yuheba Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>9 Dorsomedian apical sinuation of phallobase concave and deeply sinuated........................................ 10</p> <p>- Dorsomedian apical sinuation of phallobase partially sclerotized and with a sharply pointed lamella................... 15</p> <p>10 Antennal club distinctly longer than remaining antennomeres combined. Long and scale-like setae on elytra are erect. Preapical dark spot on elytra indistinct........................................................... S. lagoi Ahrens, 2007</p> <p>- Antennal club almost no longer than remaining antennomeres combined. Long and scale-like setae on elytra are adpressed or directed posteriorly................................................................................... 11</p> <p>11 Metacoxa laterally just with fine setae.................................................................... 12</p> <p>- Metacoxa laterally with numerous white scales.......................................... S. maculosa Moser, 1915</p> <p>12 Pronotum in basal half strongly narrowed anteriorly. Protarsal claws symmetrical.............. S. squamosa Ahrens, 2007</p> <p>- Pronotum in basal half very weakly or not narrowed anteriorly................................................ 13</p> <p>13 Left paramere uniformly narrowed distally................................................................ 14</p> <p>- Left paramere preapically medially strongly widened and distally abruptly narrowed......... S. feisintsiensis Ahrens, 2007</p> <p>14 Base of clypeus just setose............................................................ S. pulvinosa Frey, 1972</p> <p>- Base of clypeus with small white scales............................................ S. nigroguttata Brenske, 1897</p> <p>15 Phallobase in lateral view simply pointed apically........................................................... 16</p> <p>- Phallobase in lateral view with a long and more or less robust ventroapical lamella................................. 18</p> <p>16 Right paramere curved................................................................................ 17</p> <p>- Right paramere completely straight. Phallobase beside dorsomedian apical sinuation on each side with a blunt tubercle...................................................................................... S. horrida Ahrens, 2007</p> <p>17 Right paramere strongly curved, without preapical lateral teeth.......................... S. latesquamata Ahrens, 2007</p> <p>- Right paramere weakly curved, with robust, preapical lateral teeth......... S. baoshan Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>18 Protarsal claws symmetrical, basal tooth of inner claw simply pointed....................... S. sinuaticeps Moser, 1915</p> <p>- Protarsal claws asymmetrical, basal tooth of inner claw small and lobiform..................... S. werneri Ahrens, 2007</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFF89FF93FF435812FA09FE8C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFF87FF90FF4358F0FBF1FE46.text	AE7687EAFF87FF90FF4358F0FBF1FE46.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica yuheba Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2022	<div><p>Serica yuheba Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>Figures 15A–D, 24</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “ Yuheba, Daozhen, Guizhou, 25.V.2004, leg. Yu Yang / LW-131/ 1143 Sericini Asia spec.” (HBUM). Paratype: 1 ♂ “ Yuheba, Daozhen, Guizhou, 25.V.2004, leg. Yu Yang ” (HBUM).</p> <p>Description of the holotype. Length: 8.2 mm, length of elytra: 6.2 mm, width: 5.2 mm. Body elongate, dark brown, dull, partly with greenish toment or shine, elytra with several dark impunctate spots and a large round dark preapical spot, antenna yellow; dorsal surface densely covered with short adpressed scale-like, white setae.</p> <p>Labroclypeus subtrapezoidal, little wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins in basal half straight, in apical half strongly convex and convergent towards strongly rounded anterior angles; anterior margin deeply emarginate medially; margins moderately reflexed; surface flat and shiny, finely and densely punctate, with numerous fine erect setae; frontoclypeal suture finely incised, weakly curved but indistinct under thick toment; smooth area anterior to eye small, as wide as long; ocular canthus short and slender (1/4 of ocular diameter), impunctate, with a short terminal seta. Frons completely dull and flat, with fine and dense punctures, punctures with moderately dense, adpressed, white, scale-like setae and with long fine erect setae. Eyes small, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.45. Antenna with 10 antennomeres; club with three antennomeres, 1.2 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined and straight. Mentum strongly elevated anteriorly, convex. Labrum moderately produced along middle, deeply emarginate medially.</p> <p>Pronotum wide but subtrapezoidal, widest at base, lateral margins straight and strongly convergent anteriorly; anterior angles moderately produced and strongly convex; posterior angles strongly rounded; anterior margin straight, without distinct marginal line; surface irregularly densely and finely punctate, partly punctures less dense, along basal midline broadly impunctate and glabrous, otherwise with dense, short, white, scale-like, adpressed setae, partly on disc only with minute setae; anterior and lateral margins sparsely setose; hypomeron carinate at base, distinctly produced ventrally. Scutellum large, triangular, finely and densely punctate, median base impunctate, pilosity as in pronotum.</p> <p>Elytra oval, widest at middle, striae finely impressed, finely and densely punctate; intervals flat, with fine, moderately dense punctures; pilosity as in pronotum, dark spots impunctate and glabrous; epipleural edge fine but at middle strongly widened and concavely reflexed, ending at moderately curved external apical angle of elytra, epipleura densely setose; with a blunt, transverse preapical carina before narrowly membraneous apical margin, with a fine rime of minute microtrichomes (magnification 100x).</p> <p>Ventral surface dull, finely and densely punctate, including metacoxa densely setose, with long fine setae and dense white scale-like setae; metacoxa additionally with a few robust lateral setae. Mesosternum between mesocoxae half as wide as the slender mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/ 1.3. Abdominal sternites with a transverse row of coarse punctures, each bearing a long seta, otherwise pilosity as in the rest of the ventral surface; penultimate sternite at posterior margin with a wide membraneous rim being one quarter as long as sternite. Pygidium strongly convex, dull, dark, finely and densely punctate, with long setae along apical margin, otherwise pilosity as in abdominal sternites.</p> <p>Legs slender, shiny, pro- and mesofemur dull; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and sparsely punctate between the rows. Metafemur shiny, anterior margin acute, without a continuously serrated line behind anterior edge; ventral posterior margin serrated and only weakly widened at apex, dorsal posterior margin completely serrated, in basal half with a few long setae which are half as long as metafemur width. Metatibia slender and long, widest shortly before apex, ratio of width/ length: 1/3.67, dorsally sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal group at middle, apical group at three quarters of metatibial length, basally with a few single, robust setae; external face sparsely and finely punctate, with a few short longitudinal wrinkles; ventral margin serrated, with two widely separated robust setae; medial face glabrous, impunctate but wrinkled; apex interiorly near tarsal articulation bluntly truncate. Tarsomeres ventrally with sparse, minute setae, with fine elongate punctures dorsally. Metatarsomeres ventrally glabrous, laterally carinate, with a strongly serrated ridge ventrally; first metatarsomere distinctly longer than following two tarsomeres combined and longer than twice as long as dorsal tibial spur. Protibia moderately long, bidentate, external margin smooth not extended laterally at middle; protarsal claws asymmetric, basal tooth of interior claw small lobiform, convex at apex.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 15A–C. Habitus: Fig. 15D. Female unknown.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Serica yuheba Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species differs from all other species of the Serica nigroguttata group by the strongly reflexed lateral margin of the elytra, as well as the strong mesal tooth at the middle of the left paramere.</p> <p>Etymology. The new species is named (noun in apposition) after its type locality, Yuheba.</p> <p>Variation. Length: 8.2–8.3 mm, length of elytra: 6.2–6.3 mm, width: 5.2–5.3 mm.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFF87FF90FF4358F0FBF1FE46	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		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AE7687EAFF85FF96FF4359EBFB67FED7.text	AE7687EAFF85FF96FF4359EBFB67FED7.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica baoshan Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2022	<div><p>Serica baoshan Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>Figures 15E–H, 24</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “ China, W Yunnan prov. mts. 20km SW Baoshan, 2400m, 23.-25.v.2006, S. Murzin &amp; Shokin leg./ 1150 Asia Sericini spec. ” (CP). Paratypes: 1 ♂, 1 ♀ “ China, W Yunnan prov. mts. 20km SW Baoshan, 2400m, 23.-25.v.2006, S. Murzin &amp; Shokin leg.” (CP, ZFMK), 1 ♂ “S. China, Yunnan prov. 18 km SW Baoshan, 2100 m, 18.-19.v.2003 leg. S. Murzin ” (CP).</p> <p>Description of the holotype. Length: 6.9 mm, length of elytra: 4.9 mm, width: 3.5 mm. Body elongate, brown, legs slightly lighter, surface dull, elytra with several slightly darker impunctate spots, and partly iridescent, antenna yellow; dorsal surface densely covered with short, pale setae.</p> <p>Labroclypeus subtrapezoidal, little wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins convex and convergent towards strongly rounded anterior angles; anterior margin distinctly emarginate medially; margins moderately reflexed; surface flat and shiny, finely and densely punctate, with numerous fine erect setae; frontoclypeal suture finely incised, weakly curved; smooth area anterior to eye small, twice as wide as long; ocular canthus short and slender (1/3 of ocular diameter), impunctate, with a short terminal seta. Frons completely dull and flat, with fine and dense punctures, punctures with moderately dense, adpressed, white, setae and with a few pale long erect ones. Eyes small, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.59. Antenna with 10 antennomeres; club with three antennomeres, 1.3 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined and straight. Mentum strongly elevated anteriorly, convex. Labrum moderately produced along middle, moderately emarginate medially.</p> <p>Pronotum wide but subtrapezoidal, widest at base, lateral margins in basal half straight and subparallel, in anterior half strongly convex and convergent anteriorly; anterior angles moderately produced and blunt; posterior angles blunt; anterior margin straight, with distinct marginal line; surface irregularly densely and finely punctate, along midline impunctate and glabrous, otherwise with dense, short, white, adpressed setae, on disc with numerous long, pale, erect setae; anterior and lateral margins sparsely setose; hypomeron carinate at base, not produced ventrally. Scutellum large, triangular, finely and very densely punctate, median base impunctate, with very dense, adpressed, short to minute setae in punctures.</p> <p>Elytra oval, widest at middle, striae finely impressed, finely and densely punctate; intervals flat, with fine, moderately dense punctures; punctures with pale, short adpressed setae, on odd intervals with a few singe robust white and erect setae; epipleural edge fine, ending at moderately curved external apical angle of elytra, epipleura densely setose; apical margin membraneous, with a fine rime of minute microtrichomes (magnification 100x).</p> <p>Ventral surface dull, finely and densely punctate, with fine, dense, adpressed, pale setae; metacoxa with minute setae in punctures, additionally with a few robust lateral setae. Mesosternum between mesocoxae half as wide as the slender mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/ 1.5. Abdominal sternites with a transverse row of coarse punctures, each bearing a long seta, otherwise pilosity as in the rest of the ventral surface; penultimate sternite at posterior margin with a wide membraneous rim being one quarter as long as sternite. Pygidium moderately convex, dull, dark, finely and densely punctate, with long pale setae margin, otherwise with fine white adpressed pilosity.</p> <p>Legs slender, shiny, pro- and mesofemur dull; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and sparsely punctate between the rows. Metafemur shiny, anterior margin acute, without a continuously serrated line behind anterior edge; ventral posterior margin serrated and only weakly widened at apex, dorsal posterior margin completely serrated, in basal half with a few long setae which are half as long as metafemur width. Metatibia slender and long, widest shortly before apex, ratio of width/ length: 1/4.3, dorsally sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal group shortly before middle, apical group at three quarters of metatibial length, basally with a few single, robust setae; external face sparsely and finely punctate, with a few short longitudinal wrinkles on dorsal portion; ventral margin serrated, with two moderately separated robust setae; medial face glabrous, superficially finely punctate; apex interiorly near tarsal articulation bluntly truncate. Tarsomeres ventrally with sparse, minute setae, with sparse fine punctures dorsally. Metatarsomeres ventrally glabrous, laterally and dorsally carinate, with a strongly serrated ridge ventrally; first metatarsomere as long as following two tarsomeres combined and twice as long as dorsal tibial spur. Protibia moderately long, bidentate, external margin smooth not extended laterally at middle; protarsal claws asymmetric, basal tooth of interior claw widened and bluntly truncate at apex.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 15E–G. Habitus: Fig. 15H.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Serica baoshan Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species differs from the similar Serica inaequalis Ahrens, 2007 by the dorsoventrally more flattened apical phallobase (lateral view), the more narrow left paramere, and the right paramere which is only before the apex bluntly extended to a lateral tooth (rather than at middle as in S. inaequalis).</p> <p>Etymology. The new species is named (noun in apposition) after its type locality, Baoshan.</p> <p>Variation. Length: 6.1–6.9 mm, length of elytra: 4.2–4.9 mm, width: 3.4–3.5 mm. Female: Antennal club little shorter than remaining antennomeres combined, pygidium weakly convex, eyes as large as in male.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFF85FF96FF4359EBFB67FED7	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFF82FF96FF4358CAFA08F92B.text	AE7687EAFF82FF96FF4358CAFA08F92B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica MacLeay 1819	<div><p>Serica (subgenus Taiwanoserica Nomura, 1974)</p> <p>Remarks. Taiwanoserica Nomura, 1974 was originally described as genus from Taiwan, from where a number of endemic species have so far been reported (Kobayashi 1983, 1988, 1993; Kobayashi &amp; Yu 2000; Ahrens 2002, 2006, 2007b; Ahrens &amp; Bezděk 2016). Based on results of a morphology-based phylogeny (Ahrens 2007c) it was ranked subsequently as a subgenus of Serica (Ahrens 2007b). Taiwanoserica was later, based on a morphologybased phylogeny (Ahrens 2009), also reported from western China. In subsequent molecular phylogenies Taiwanoserica resulted to be sister group of the Serica (s. str.) (Liu et al. 2015b; Eberle et al. 2017), thus its subgenus rank was confirmed. Herein, we describe six additional new species from western China, northern Vietnam and Taiwan.</p> <p>Key to species of the subgenus Taiwanoserica from continental Asia (♂) #: 5</p> <p>1 Dorsomedian lobe of endophallus strongly sclerotized, and externally visible. Posterior angles of pronotum convex........ 2</p> <p>- Dorsomedian lobe of endophallus small, membraneous, and externally not always visible. Posterior angles of pronotum blunt.................................................................................................... 7</p> <p>2 Dorsomedian lobe of endophallus as long as parameres........................................................ 3</p> <p>- Dorsomedian lobe of endophallus much shorter than parameres................................................. 6</p> <p>3 Dorsal and ventral lobe of the left paramere have not the same median main axis................................... 4</p> <p>- Dorsal and ventral lobe of the left paramere have the same median main axis................................................................................................. S. (T.) taishun Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>4 Ventral lobe of the left paramere robust and ventrally curved. Dorsal lobe of the left paramere narrow, at maximum three times as long as wide.................................................................. S. (T.) silviae Ahrens, 2009</p> <p>- Ventral lobe of the left paramere only filiform and small, dorsally curved. Left paramere with massive dorsal lobe which is twice as long as wide.................................................................................. 5</p> <p>5 Dorsal lobe of the left paramere large. Basal lobe of the right paramere long, widely curved and directed distally............................................................ S. (T.) kuankuoshuiensis Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>- Dorsal lobe of the left paramere much smaller and shorter. Basal lobe of the right paramere very shorter and directed basally.................................................. S. (T.) tianpingshanensis Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>6 Ventral phallobase not widened. Dorsal lobes of both parameres almost straight. (China)... S. (T.) sigipinensis Ahrens, 2009</p> <p>- Ventral phallobase bluntly widened. Dorsal lobes of both parameres strongly arched. (northern Vietnam)......................................................................... S. (T.) limbourgi Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>7 Both lobes of parameres directed distally................................................................... 8</p> <p>- Both lobes of parameres directed mediobasally................................... S. (T.) chengtuensis Ahrens, 2009</p> <p>8 Both lobes of parameres large, subequal in length to phallobase.................... S. (T.) wenchuanensis Ahrens, 2009</p> <p>- Lobes of parameres small (particularly the ventral one), distinctly shorter than phallobase............................ 9</p> <p>9 Dorsal lobe of the right paramere strongly curved (dorsal view). Dorsal lobe of the left paramere preapically abrubtly bent........................................................... S. (T.) hailuogou Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>- Dorsal lobe of the right paramere straight (dorsal view). Dorsal lobe of the left paramere preapically evenly bent.................................................................. S. (T.) huangjing Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFF82FF96FF4358CAFA08F92B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFF82FF94FF435FA3FBF1FA56.text	AE7687EAFF82FF94FF435FA3FBF1FA56.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica (Taiwanoserica) kuankuoshuiensis (Ahrens 2007) Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2022	<div><p>Serica (T.) kuankuoshuiensis Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>Figures 16A–D, 25</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “ Guizhou Kuankuoshui Nature Reserve, Tea Farm, 2010-VIII-10, 1527m, N:28.22; E: 107.15/ LW-1365” (ZFMK). Paratypes: 2 ♂♂ “ Pingbaying, Xianfeng, Hubei, 22.VII.1999, leg. Zheng Leyi ” (NKU), 1 ♂ “ Mt. Fanjingshan, Guizhou, 27.VII.2001, 1300m, leg. Zhao Fang / LW-956” (CAU), 1 ♂ “ Leigongshan Forestry Farm, Guizhou, 14.IX.2005, leg. Wang Jiliang, Gaochao/ LW-087” (HBUM).</p> <p># Species from Taiwan not included here.</p> <p>Description of the holotype. Length: 8.6 mm, length of elytra: 6.5 mm, width: 5.0 mm. Body oval, dark brown, dull, partly with greenish toment, ventral surface and legs reddish brown, elytra yellow brown with numerous dark spots, in punctures lighter, antenna yellow; dorsal surface almost glabrous except some single and short, white adpressed setae on pronotum and elytra.</p> <p>Labroclypeus subtrapezoidal, little wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins weakly convex and convergent anteriorly, preapically abruptly angled; anterior angles blunt; anterior margin deeply emarginate medially; margins moderately reflexed; surface flat and moderately shiny, finely and densely punctate, partly punctures fusing to transverse wrinkles, with numerous erect setae; frontoclypeal suture finely incised, weakly bent medially; smooth area anterior to eye small and convex, 1.5 times as wide as long; ocular canthus short and slender (1/4 of ocular diameter), impunctate, with a short terminal seta. Frons completely dull and flat, with fine and dense punctures, with numerous fine and short, erect setae. Eyes small, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.57. Antenna with 10 antennomeres; club with three antennomeres, as long as remaining antennomeres combined and straight. Mentum strongly elevated anteriorly, flattened anteriorly. Labrum strongly produced along middle, narrowly but deeply emarginate medially.</p> <p>Pronotum narrow and subtrapezoidal, widest at base, lateral margins evenly and weakly convex and convergent anteriorly; anterior angles well produced and sharp, weakly rounded in the tip; posterior angles weakly rounded; anterior margin straight, with robust and complete marginal line; surface irregularly, partly densely and partly sparsely punctate, sparse punctures finer, along midline narrowly impunctate, with short or minute, white, adpressed setae; lateral margins sparsely setose; hypomeron carinate at base, moderately produced ventrally. Scutellum large, triangular, finely and densely punctate, with minute setae in punctures, on midline punctures less dense.</p> <p>Elytra oval, widest at posterior third, striae finely impressed, finely and densely punctate; intervals flat, with fine, sparse punctures; with a few single, fine, short, white, adpressed setae on all intervals; epipleural edge fine, ending at moderately curved external apical angle of elytra, epipleura densely setose; apical margin narrowly membraneous, with a fine rime of minute microtrichomes (magnification 100x) (left elytra of holotype broken at middle, apical portion missing).</p> <p>Ventral surface dull, finely and densely punctate, sparsely setose, widely glabrous; metacoxa glabrous, except a few short lateral setae. Mesosternum between mesocoxae half as wide as the slender mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/ 1.49. Abdominal sternites with a transverse row of coarse punctures, each bearing a long seta, otherwise glabrous; penultimate sternite at posterior margin with a wide membraneous rim being one third as long as sternite. Pygidium moderately convex and dull, dark, in punctures yellow, finely and densely punctate, smooth midline narrow, with sparse, moderately long setae.</p> <p>Legs slender, shiny, pro- and mesofemur dull; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and sparsely punctate between the rows. Metafemur shiny, anterior margin acute, without a continuously serrated line behind anterior edge; ventral posterior margin serrated and only weakly widened at apex, dorsal posterior margin completely serrated, in basal half with a few long setae which are half as long as metafemur width. Metatibia slender and long, widest shortly before apex, ratio of width/ length: 1/3.8, dorsally sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal group at one third, apical group at two thirds of metatibial length, basally with a few single, robust setae; external face sparsely and finely punctate, with some superficial longitudinal wrinkles; ventral margin serrated, with two widely separated robust setae; medial face finely sparsely punctate, glabrous; apex interiorly near tarsal articulation bluntly truncate. Tarsomeres ventrally with sparse, minute setae, dorsally smooth. Metatarsomeres ventrally glabrous, laterally and dorsally carinate, with a strongly serrated ridge ventrally; first metatarsomere little shorter than following two tarsomeres combined and little longer than dorsal tibial spur. Protibia moderately long, bidentate, external margin smooth but bluntly extended at middle; anterior claws asymmetrical, basal tooth of inner claw widened and sharply pointed at apex.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 16A–C. Habitus: Fig. 16D. Female unknown.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Serica kuankuoshuiensis Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species resembles somewhat Serica silviae Ahrens, 2009, both species share the sclerotized and spinose endophallus which is visible between parameres. Both species differ significantly in the shape of parameres, in Serica kuankuoshuiensis the dorsal lobe of the left paramere is massive and the ventral lobe only filiform and small.</p> <p>Etymology. The species is named (adjective in singular nominative case) after its type locality, Kuankuoshui Nature Reserve.</p> <p>Variation. Length: 8.4–8.6 mm, length of elytra: 6.5–6.6 mm, width: 5.0– 5.8 mm.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFF82FF94FF435FA3FBF1FA56	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFF80FF95FF435F4BFF40F8FE.text	AE7687EAFF80FF95FF435F4BFF40F8FE.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica (Taiwanoserica) limbourgi (Ahrens 2007) Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2022	<div><p>Serica (T.) limbourgi Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>Figure 16E–H, 25</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “ Coll. I.R.Sc.N.B. Vietnam: <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=105.88333&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=22.6" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 105.88333/lat 22.6)">Pia Oac Mt.</a> NR 22°36’N / 105°53’E 04-06- VIII-2010 / I.G. 31.668 Light Trap Leg. J. Coinstant &amp; P. Limbourg / 1048 Sericini Asia spec.” (ISNB). Paratypes: 7 ♂♂, 7 ♀♀ “ Coll. I.R.Sc.N.B. Vietnam: <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=105.88333&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=22.6" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 105.88333/lat 22.6)">Pia Oac Mt.</a> NR 22°36’N / 105°53’E 04-06-VIII-2010 / I.G. 31.668 Light Trap Leg. J. Coinstant &amp; P. Limbourg ” (ISNB, ZFMK), 1 ♂ “ Coll. I.R.Sc.N.B. Vietnam: Cuc Phong 11-18-VIII- 2010 I.G. 31.668 Leg. J. Coinstant &amp; P. Limbourg ” (ISNB).</p> <p>Description of the holotype. Length: 8.9 mm, length of elytra: 6.5 mm, width: 5.2 mm. Body oval, dark brown, iridescent and moderately shiny, partly with greenish toment or shine, ventral surface and legs reddish brown, elytra yellow brown with numerous dark spots, in punctures lighter, antenna yellow; dorsal surface almost glabrous except some short, pale setae on pronotum and elytra.</p> <p>Labroclypeus subtrapezoidal, little wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins strongly convex and convergent anteriorly; anterior angles moderately rounded; anterior margin deeply emarginate medially; margins moderately reflexed; surface flat and moderately shiny, finely and densely punctate, partly punctures fusing to transverse wrinkles, with numerous erect setae; frontoclypeal suture finely incised, weakly bent medially; smooth area anterior to eye small and convex, 1.5 times as wide as long; ocular canthus short and slender (1/4 of ocular diameter), impunctate, with a short terminal seta. Frons completely dull and flat, with fine and dense punctures, with numerous fine and short, erect setae. Eyes very small, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.48. Antenna with 10 antennomeres; club with three antennomeres, 1.1 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined and straight. Mentum strongly elevated anteriorly, flattened anteriorly. Labrum strongly produced along middle, narrowly but deeply emarginate medially.</p> <p>Pronotum narrow and subtrapezoidal, widest shortly before base, lateral margins evenly and weakly convex and convergent anteriorly; anterior angles distinctly produced and sharp; posterior angles strongly rounded; anterior margin straight, without marginal line; surface finely densely punctate, without smooth midline, with short or minute, fine, erect, pale setae; lateral margins sparsely setose; hypomeron carinate at base, weakly produced ventrally. Scutellum large, triangular, finely and densely punctate, with minute setae in punctures, on midline narrowly impunctate.</p> <p>Elytra oval, widest at posterior third, striae finely impressed, finely and densely punctate; intervals flat, with fine, sparse punctures; with a few single, fine, short, erect setae on all intervals; epipleural edge fine, ending at moderately curved external apical angle of elytra, epipleura densely setose (but setae in holotype abraded); apical margin narrowly membraneous, with a fine rime of minute microtrichomes (magnification 100x).</p> <p>Ventral surface dull, finely and densely punctate, on metasternal disc densely setose, otherwise sparsely setose; metacoxa glabrous, except a few short lateral setae. Mesosternum between mesocoxae half as wide as the slender mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/ 1.48. Abdominal sternites with a transverse row of coarse punctures, each bearing a long seta, otherwise glabrous; penultimate sternite at posterior margin with a wide membraneous rim being a quarter as long as sternite. Pygidium strongly convex and moderately shiny, dark, in punctures yellow, finely and densely punctate, smooth midline wide, with moderately dense, long and short setae.</p> <p>Legs slender, shiny, pro- and mesofemur dull; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and sparsely punctate between the rows. Metafemur shiny, anterior margin acute, without a continuously serrated line behind anterior edge; ventral posterior margin serrated and only weakly widened at apex, dorsal posterior margin completely serrated, in basal half with a few long setae which are half as long as metafemur width. Metatibia slender and long, widest shortly before apex, ratio of width/ length: 1/4.5, dorsally sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal group shortly behind the basal third, apical group at two thirds of metatibial length, basally with a few single, fine setae; external face sparsely and finely punctate, without wrinkles, glabrous; ventral margin serrated, with two widely separated robust setae; medial face finely sparsely punctate, glabrous; apex interiorly near tarsal articulation bluntly truncate. Tarsomeres ventrally with sparse, minute setae, dorsally sparsely finely punctate. Metatarsomeres ventrally glabrous, laterally and dorsally carinate, with a strongly serrated ridge ventrally; first metatarsomere little shorter than following two tarsomeres combined and little longer than dorsal tibial spur. Protibia moderately long, bidentate, external margin smooth but bluntly extended at middle; anterior claws asymmetrical, basal tooth of inner claw widened and sharply pointed at apex.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 16E–G. Habitus: Fig. 16H.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Serica limbourgi Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species is in shape of aedeagus most similar to Serica sigipinensis Ahrens, 2009. Serica limbourgi differs by the bluntly widened ventral phallobase, and the strongly arched dorsal lobe of both parameres.</p> <p>Etymology. The new species is named (substantive in singular genitive case) after one of its collectors, Poul Limbourg.</p> <p>Variation. Length: 8.9–10.4 mm, length of elytra: 6.5–8.1 mm, width: 5.2–5.8 mm. Female: antennal club short, little shorter than remaining antennomeres combined; pygidium at apex strongly convex; eyes as large as in male.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFF80FF95FF435F4BFF40F8FE	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFFFEFFE8FF4359EBFD0DFF66.text	AE7687EAFFFEFFE8FF4359EBFD0DFF66.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica (Taiwanoserica) tianpingshanensis (Ahrens 2007) Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2022	<div><p>Serica (T.) tianpingshanensis Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>Figures 17A–E, 25</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “ Mts. Tianpingshan, Sangzhi, Hunan, 14.VIII. 1988, 350m, leg. Liu Hong / LW-037/ 1142 Sericini Asia spec.” (IZAS). Paratypes: 1 ♂ “ Mts. Tianpingshan, Sangzhi, Hunan, 14.VIII. 1988, 350m, leg. Liu Hong ” (IZAS), 2 ♂♂ “ Mts. Tianpingshan, Sangzhi, Hunan, 13.VIII.1988, 1640m, leg. Yang Xingke ” (IZAS), 1 ♂ “ Mts. Tianpingshan, Sangzhi, Hunan, 12.VIII.1988, 1650m, leg. Yang Xingke ” (ZFMK), 1 ♂ “ Wang’erbao, Wanxian, Sichuan, 11.VIII.1993, 1200m, leg. Chen Xiaolin ” (IZAS), 1 ♂ “ Fenshuiling, Mts. Hefeng, Hubei, 30.VII.1989, leg. Sun Baowen ” (IZAS), 1 ♂ “ Fenshuiling, Mts. Hefeng, Hubei, 30.VII.1989, 1250m, leg. Sun Baowen ” (IZAS), 1 ♀ “ Fenshuiling Forestry Farm, Mts. Hefeng, Hubei, 30.VII.1989, 1200m, leg. Sun Baowen ” (IZAS), 1 ♀ “ Fenshuiling Forestry Farm, Mts. Hefeng, Hubei, 30.VII.1989, 1250m, leg. Sun Baowen ” (IZAS), 1 ♂ “ Mts. Jinfoshan, Nanchuan, Chongqing, 23-24.VII.2003, leg. Liu Yushuang, Yuan Caixia ” (HBUM), 1 ♂ “ Mts. Jinfoshan, Nanchuan, Chongqing, 24-28.VII.2003, leg. Liu Yushuang, Yuan Caixia ” (HBUM), 1 ♂ “ Huguosi Temple, Mts. Fanjingshan, Guizhou, 14.VIII.2001, leg. Pang Hong ” (LYYSU), 1 ♂ “ Tiechanghuang ?, 11.VIII.1989, 1450m, leg. Yang Longlong ” (IZAS), 1 ♂ “ Wangerbao, Wanxian, Sichuan, 11.VIII.1993, 1200m, light trap, leg. Chen Xiaolin, Sun Baowen / LW-049” (IZAS), 1 ♂ “ Wangerbao, Wanxian, Sichuan, 14.VIII.1993, 1200m, light trap, leg. Chen Xiaolin, Sun Baowen ” (IZAS).</p> <p>Description of the holotype. Length: 8.8 mm, length of elytra: 6.5 mm, width: 4.9 mm. Body oval, dark brown, dull, partly with greenish toment, ventral surface and legs reddish brown, elytra yellow brown with numerous dark spots, in punctures lighter, antenna yellow; dorsal surface almost glabrous except some single and short, white adpressed setae on pronotum and elytra.</p> <p>Labroclypeus subtrapezoidal, little wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins weakly convex and convergent anteriorly, preapically abruptly angled; anterior angles blunt; anterior margin deeply emarginate medially; margins moderately reflexed; surface flat and moderately shiny, finely and densely punctate, partly punctures fusing to transverse wrinkles, with a few erect setae; frontoclypeal suture finely incised, weakly bent medially; smooth area anterior to eye small and convex, 1.5 times as wide as long; ocular canthus short and slender (1/4 of ocular diameter), impunctate, without a short terminal seta. Frons completely dull and flat, with fine and dense punctures, posteriorly with numerous fine and short setae. Eyes small, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.56. Antenna with 10 antennomeres; club with three antennomeres, little longer than remaining antennomeres combined and straight. Mentum strongly elevated anteriorly, flattened anteriorly. Labrum strongly produced along middle, narrowly but deeply emarginate medially.</p> <p>Pronotum moderately narrow and subtrapezoidal, widest at base, lateral margins evenly and weakly convex and convergent anteriorly; anterior angles well produced, weakly rounded in the tip; posterior angles blunt; anterior margin straight, robust marginal line widely interrupted medially; surface irregularly, partly densely and partly sparsely punctate, sparse punctures finer, along midline narrowly impunctate and medially on each side with a shallow impression, with sparse, short or minute, white, adpressed setae; lateral margins sparsely setose; hypomeron carinate at base, moderately produced ventrally. Scutellum large, triangular, finely and densely punctate, with minute setae in punctures, on basal midline impunctate.</p> <p>Elytra oval, widest at posterior third, striae finely impressed, finely and densely punctate; intervals flat, with fine, sparse punctures; with a few single, fine, short, white, adpressed setae on all intervals; epipleural edge fine, ending at moderately curved external apical angle of elytra, epipleura densely setose; apical margin narrowly membraneous, with a fine rime of minute microtrichomes (magnification 100x).</p> <p>Ventral surface dull, finely and densely punctate, sparsely setose, widely glabrous; metacoxa glabrous, except a few short lateral setae. Mesosternum between mesocoxae half as wide as the slender mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/ 1.34. Abdominal sternites with a transverse row of coarse punctures, each bearing a long seta, otherwise glabrous; penultimate sternite at posterior margin with a wide membraneous rim being one third as long as sternite. Pygidium strongly convex and dull, dark, in punctures yellow, finely and densely punctate, smooth midline narrow, with sparse, moderately long setae.</p> <p>Legs slender, shiny, pro- and mesofemur dull; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and sparsely punctate between the rows. Metafemur shiny, anterior margin acute, without a continuously serrated line behind anterior edge; ventral posterior margin serrated and only weakly widened at apex, dorsal posterior margin completely serrated, in basal half with a few long setae which are half as long as metafemur width. Metatibia slender and long, widest shortly before apex, ratio of width/ length: 1/3.6; dorsal margin sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal group at one third, apical group at three quarters of metatibial length, basally with a few single, robust setae; external face densely and coarsely but superficially punctate, without longitudinal wrinkles; ventral margin serrated, with two widely separated robust setae; medial face finely sparsely punctate, glabrous; apex interiorly near tarsal articulation bluntly truncate. Tarsomeres ventrally with sparse, minute setae, dorsally smooth. Metatarsomeres ventrally glabrous, laterally and dorsally carinate, with a strongly serrated ridge ventrally; first metatarsomere little shorter than following two tarsomeres combined and little longer than dorsal tibial spur. Protibia moderately long, bidentate, external margin smooth but bluntly extended at middle; anterior claws asymmetrical, basal tooth of inner claw widened and sharply pointed at apex.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 17A–D. Habitus: Fig. 17E.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Serica tianpingshanensis Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species differs clearly from the closely related and very similar Serica kuankuoshuiensis Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species in the shape of parameres: the dorsal lobe of the left paramere is much smaller and shorter, the basal lobe of the right paramere is much shorter and directed basally rather being bend distally.</p> <p>Etymology. The species is named (adjective in singular nominative case) after its type locality, Mts. Tianpingshan.</p> <p>Variation. Length: 6.9–8.8 mm, length of elytra: 5.2–6.5 mm, width: 4.2–4.9 mm. Female: Eyes and antennal club as in male; pygidium a little less convex.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFFEFFE8FF4359EBFD0DFF66	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFFFCFFE9FF43585AFF45FEF3.text	AE7687EAFFFCFFE9FF43585AFF45FEF3.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica (Taiwanoserica) taishun (Ahrens 2007) Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2022	<div><p>Serica (T.) taishun Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>Figures 17F–I, 25</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “ Mt. Wuyanling, Taishun, Zhejiang, 3.VIII. 2005, 650m, leg. Wang Zhiliang/ LW-120/ 1149 Asia Sericini spec. ” (CAU).</p> <p>Description of the holotype. Length: 8.2 mm, length of elytra: 6.1 mm, width: 4.9 mm. Body oval, dark reddish brown, dull, elytra with yellow spots, antenna yellow; dorsal surface almost glabrous except some single and short, white setae on pronotum and elytra.</p> <p>Labroclypeus subtrapezoidal, little wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins strongly convex and convergent anteriorly; anterior angles sharp; anterior margin narrowly and deeply emarginate medially; margins moderately reflexed; surface weakly convex and moderately shiny, finely and densely punctate, with transverse wrinkles and numerous fine and erect setae; frontoclypeal suture finely incised, weakly bent medially; smooth area anterior to eye small and convex, 1.5 times as wide as long; ocular canthus moderately short and slender (1/3 of ocular diameter), impunctate, with a short terminal seta. Frons completely dull and flat, with fine and dense punctures, with numerous fine and short as well as a few longer, posteriorly bent setae. Eyes small, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.55. Antenna with 10 antennomeres; club with three antennomeres, little shorter than remaining antennomeres combined and straight. Mentum strongly elevated anteriorly, flattened anteriorly. Labrum strongly produced along middle, narrowly and deeply emarginate medially.</p> <p>Pronotum wide and subtrapezoidal, widest at base, lateral margins evenly convex and convergent anteriorly; anterior angles weakly produced, sharp; posterior angles moderately rounded; anterior margin straight, marginal broad but medially widely incomplete; surface irregularly, densely and finely punctate, with minute setae in punctures and a few pale adpressed setae on disc; anterior and lateral margins densely setose; hypomeron carinate at base, weakly produced ventrally. Scutellum moderately large, triangular, finely and densely punctate, with minute setae in punctures, at median base impunctate.</p> <p>Elytra oval, widest at posterior third, striae finely impressed, finely and densely punctate; intervals flat, with fine, sparse punctures; with a few single, short, white setae on all intervals, otherwise with minute white setae in punctures; epipleural edge fine, ending at moderately curved external apical angle of elytra, epipleura densely setose; apical margin narrowly membraneous, with a fine rime of minute microtrichomes (magnification 100x).</p> <p>Ventral surface dull, finely and densely punctate, sparsely setose, widely glabrous; metacoxa glabrous, except a few short lateral setae. Mesosternum between mesocoxae half as wide as the slender mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/ 1.3. Abdominal sternites with a transverse row of coarse punctures, each bearing a long seta, otherwise glabrous; penultimate sternite at posterior margin with a wide membraneous rim being one third as long as sternite. Pygidium strongly convex and dull, dark, midline impunctate, finely and densely punctate, with sparse, short setae.</p> <p>Legs slender, shiny, pro- and mesofemur dull; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and sparsely punctate between the rows. Metafemur shiny, anterior margin acute, without a continuously serrated line behind anterior edge; ventral posterior margin serrated and only weakly widened at apex, dorsal posterior margin completely serrated, in basal half with a few long setae which are half as long as metafemur width. Metatibia slender and long, widest shortly before apex, ratio of width/ length: 1/4.1; dorsal margin sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal group at basal third, apical group at two thirds of metatibial length, basally with a few single, robust setae; external face sparsely and finely punctate, without longitudinal wrinkles; ventral margin serrated, with two widely separated robust setae; medial face finely sparsely punctate, glabrous; apex interiorly near tarsal articulation bluntly truncate. Tarsomeres ventrally with sparse, minute setae, dorsally finely and moderately densely punctate. Metatarsomeres ventrally glabrous, laterally and dorsally weakly carinate, with a strongly serrated ridge ventrally; first metatarsomere little shorter than following two tarsomeres combined and distinctly longer than dorsal tibial spur. Protibia moderately long, bidentate, external margin smooth but bluntly extended at middle; anterior claws asymmetrical, basal tooth of inner claw widened and sharply pointed at apex.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 17F–H. Habitus: Fig. 17I. Female unknown.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Serica taishun Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species differs from Serica silviae Ahrens, 2009 by the absent longer, distally directed dorsal lobe of the left paramere, and in having the dorsal lobe of the right paramere more robust than the ventral one (it is the opposite in S. silviae).</p> <p>Etymology. The species is named (noun in apposition) after its occurrence close to the city Taishun (Zhejiang).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFFCFFE9FF43585AFF45FEF3	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		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AE7687EAFFFDFFEEFF4358EEFBF1FD8E.text	AE7687EAFFFDFFEEFF4358EEFBF1FD8E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica (Taiwanoserica) huangjing (Ahrens 2007) Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2022	<div><p>Serica (T.) huangjing Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>Figures 18A–D, 25</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “ Huangjing, Luzhou, Sichuan, 16.VII.2002, leg. Bai Ming, Wang Jianfeng/ LW-167/ 1146 Asia Sericini spec. ” (HBUM). Paratypes: 1 ♂ “ Mts. Mianxuling, Fanjingshan, Guizhou, 29.VII.2001, 1900m, leg. Dong Kangzhen ” (IZAS), 1 ♂ “ Sixiangping, Jiangkou, Guizhou, 1.VIII.2001, leg. Ren Guodong / LW- 141” (HBUM).</p> <p>Description of the holotype. Length: 7.6 mm, length of elytra: 5.6 mm, width: 4.2 mm. Body oval, dark reddish brown, dull, elytra yellow brown with numerous dark spots, partly with greenish toment, ventral surface and legs reddish brown, antenna yellow; dorsal surface almost glabrous except some single and short, white adpressed setae on pronotum and elytra.</p> <p>Labroclypeus subtrapezoidal, little wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins weakly convex and convergent anteriorly; anterior angles blunt; anterior margin deeply emarginate medially; margins moderately reflexed; surface weakly convex and moderately shiny, finely and densely punctate, partly punctures fusing to transverse wrinkles, with numerous erect setae; frontoclypeal suture finely incised, weakly bent medially; smooth area anterior to eye small and convex, 1.5 times as wide as long; ocular canthus short and slender (1/4 of ocular diameter), impunctate, with a short terminal seta. Frons completely dull and flat, with fine and dense punctures, with numerous fine and short, erect setae. Eyes small, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.53. Antenna with 10 antennomeres; club with three antennomeres, 1.2 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined and straight. Mentum strongly elevated anteriorly, flattened anteriorly. Labrum strongly produced along middle, narrowly but deeply emarginate medially.</p> <p>Pronotum moderately narrow and subtrapezoidal, widest shortly behind middle, lateral margins evenly convex and convergent anteriorly and posteriorly; anterior angles weakly produced, sharp; posterior angles blunt; anterior margin straight, robust marginal line complete; surface irregularly, densely and coarsely punctate, along basal midline narrowly impunctate and medially on each side with a shallow impression, with minute setae in punctures otherwise glabrous; lateral margins sparsely setose; hypomeron carinate at base, not produced ventrally. Scutellum large, triangular, finely and densely punctate, with minute setae in punctures, on basal midline impunctate.</p> <p>Elytra oval, widest at posterior third, striae finely impressed, finely and densely punctate; intervals flat, with fine, sparse punctures; with a few single, fine, short, white, adpressed setae on all intervals; epipleural edge fine, ending at moderately curved external apical angle of elytra, epipleura densely setose; apical margin narrowly membraneous, with a fine rime of minute microtrichomes (magnification 100x).</p> <p>Ventral surface dull, finely and densely punctate, sparsely setose, widely glabrous; metacoxa glabrous, except a few short lateral setae. Mesosternum between mesocoxae half as wide as the slender mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/ 1.4. Abdominal sternites with a transverse row of coarse punctures, each bearing a long seta, otherwise glabrous; penultimate sternite at posterior margin with a wide membraneous rim being one third as long as sternite. Pygidium strongly convex and dull, dark, in punctures yellow, finely and densely punctate, smooth midline narrow, with sparse, long and short setae.</p> <p>Legs slender, shiny, pro- and mesofemur dull; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and sparsely punctate between the rows. Metafemur shiny, anterior margin acute, without a continuously serrated line behind anterior edge; ventral posterior margin serrated and only weakly widened at apex, dorsal posterior margin completely serrated, in basal half with a few long setae which are half as long as metafemur width. Metatibia slender and long, widest shortly before apex, ratio of width/ length: 1/4.0; dorsal margin sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal group at middle, apical group at three quarters of metatibial length, basally with a few single, robust setae; external face densely and coarsely but superficially punctate, without longitudinal wrinkles; ventral margin serrated, with two widely separated robust setae; medial face finely sparsely punctate, glabrous; apex interiorly near tarsal articulation bluntly truncate. Tarsomeres ventrally with sparse, minute setae, dorsally smooth. Metatarsomeres ventrally glabrous, laterally weakly carinate, with a strongly serrated ridge ventrally; first metatarsomere little shorter than following two tarsomeres combined and little longer than dorsal tibial spur. Protibia moderately long, bidentate, external margin smooth but bluntly extended at middle; anterior claws asymmetrical, basal tooth of inner claw widened and sharply pointed at apex.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 18A–C. Habitus: Fig. 18D. Female unknown.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Serica huangjing Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species resembles in shape of aedeagus to Serica sigipinensis Ahrens, 2009. Serica huangjing differs by the strongly asymmetric parameres which strongly differ in length; their ventral lobes are finer while the dorsal obe of the left paramere is strongly bent laterally (dorsal view) before apex.</p> <p>Etymology. The species is named (noun in apposition) after its type locality, Huangjing.</p> <p>Variation. Length: 7.5–7.6 mm, length of elytra: 5.4–5.6 mm, width: 4.1–4.2 mm.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFFDFFEEFF4358EEFBF1FD8E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFFFBFFEFFF4359EBFCCFF86E.text	AE7687EAFFFBFFEFFF4359EBFCCFF86E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica (Taiwanoserica) hailuogou (Ahrens 2007) Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2022	<div><p>Serica (T.) hailuogou Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>Figures 18E–H, 25</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “ Hailuogou, Luding, Sichuan, 6.VIII.2004, 1500-1600m, leg. Zhang Yong / LW-178/ 1148 Asia Sericini spec. ” (IZAS). Paratype: 1 ♂ “ Hailuogou, Luding, Sichuan, 9.VIII.2004, leg. Wan Xia, Zhang Yong/ LW-190” (IZAS).</p> <p>Description of the holotype. Length: 8.0 mm, length of elytra: 6.0 mm, width: 4.4 mm. Body oval, dark reddish brown, dull, elytra with yellow spots, ventral surface and legs reddish brown, antenna yellow; dorsal surface almost glabrous except some single and short, white setae on pronotum and elytra.</p> <p>Labroclypeus subtrapezoidal, little wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins almost straight and weakly convergent anteriorly; anterior angles moderately rounded; anterior margin widely but moderately deeply emarginate medially; margins moderately reflexed; surface weakly convex and shiny, finely and densely punctate, with numerous fine and erect setae; frontoclypeal suture finely incised, weakly bent medially; smooth area anterior to eye small and convex, 1.5 times as wide as long; ocular canthus short and slender (1/5 of ocular diameter), impunctate, with a short terminal seta. Frons completely dull and flat, with fine and dense punctures, with numerous fine and short, erect setae. Eyes small, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.5. Antenna with 10 antennomeres; club with three antennomeres, as long as remaining antennomeres combined and straight. Mentum strongly elevated anteriorly, flattened anteriorly. Labrum moderately produced along middle, narrowly and deeply emarginate medially.</p> <p>Pronotum wide and subtrapezoidal, widest shortly before base, lateral margins evenly convex and convergent anteriorly; anterior angles weakly produced, sharp; posterior angles strongly rounded; anterior margin straight, marginal line fine but complete; surface irregularly, densely and finely punctate, with minute setae in punctures, with a few pale adpressed setae on disc; lateral margins sparsely setose; hypomeron carinate at base, not produced ventrally. Scutellum large, triangular, finely and densely punctate, with minute setae in punctures, on basal midline almost punctate.</p> <p>Elytra oval, widest at posterior third, striae finely impressed, finely and densely punctate; intervals flat, with fine, sparse punctures; with a few single, short, white setae on odd intervals; epipleural edge fine, ending at moderately curved external apical angle of elytra, epipleura densely setose; apical margin narrowly membraneous, with a fine rime of minute microtrichomes (magnification 100x).</p> <p>Ventral surface dull, finely and densely punctate, sparsely setose, widely glabrous; metacoxa glabrous, except a few short lateral setae. Mesosternum between mesocoxae half as wide as the slender mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/ 1.34. Abdominal sternites with a transverse row of coarse punctures, each bearing a long seta, otherwise glabrous; penultimate sternite at posterior margin with a wide membraneous rim being one third as long as sternite. Pygidium weakly convex and dull, dark, finely and sparsely punctate, with sparse, short setae.</p> <p>Legs slender, shiny, pro- and mesofemur dull; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and sparsely punctate between the rows. Metafemur shiny, anterior margin acute, without a continuously serrated line behind anterior edge; ventral posterior margin serrated and only weakly widened at apex, dorsal posterior margin completely serrated, in basal half with a few long setae which are half as long as metafemur width. Metatibia slender and long, widest shortly before apex, ratio of width/ length: 1/4.3; dorsal margin sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal group at middle, apical group at three quarters of metatibial length, basally with a few single, robust setae; external face densely and coarsely but superficially punctate, without longitudinal wrinkles; ventral margin serrated, with two widely separated robust setae; medial face finely sparsely punctate, glabrous; apex interiorly near tarsal articulation bluntly truncate. Tarsomeres ventrally with sparse, minute setae, dorsally finely and moderately densely punctate. Metatarsomeres ventrally glabrous, laterally and dorsally weakly carinate, with a strongly serrated ridge ventrally; first metatarsomere little shorter than following two tarsomeres combined and distinctly longer than dorsal tibial spur. Protibia moderately long, bidentate, external margin smooth but bluntly extended at middle; anterior claws asymmetrical, basal tooth of inner claw widened and sharply pointed at apex.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 18E–G. Habitus: Fig. 18H. Female unknown.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Serica hailuogou Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species differs from Serica huangjing Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species by the strongly curved (dorsal view) dorsal lobe of the right paramere, and the preapically abrubtly bent dorsal lobe of the left paramere.</p> <p>Etymology. The species is named (noun in apposition) after its type locality, Hailuogou.</p> <p>Variation. The paratype has the same size as the holotype.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFFBFFEFFF4359EBFCCFF86E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		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AE7687EAFFF8FFECFF4359EBFA0CF86E.text	AE7687EAFFF8FFECFF4359EBFA0CF86E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica (Taiwanoserica) smetanai (Ahrens 2007) Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2022	<div><p>Serica (T.) smetanai Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>Figures 19A–D, 25</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “ Taiwan, Kaosuing Hsien, Kuanshan trail at Kaunshanchi Riv. 2400m 20.VII.93 A. Smetana (T158)” (CMNC).</p> <p>Description of the holotype. Length: 9.4 mm, length of elytra: 7.1 mm, width: 5.4 mm. Body elongate, dark brown, dull, antenna yellow, base and margins of pronotum lighter; dorsal surface almost glabrous except some short, white setae on elytra.</p> <p>Labroclypeus short, subtrapezoidal, much wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins strongly convex and convergent anteriorly; anterior angles moderately rounded; anterior margin deeply widely emarginate medially; margins moderately reflexed; surface weakly convex and shiny, finely and densely punctate, without wrinkles, with numerous erect setae; frontoclypeal suture finely incised, weakly bent medially; smooth area anterior to eye small and convex, 1.2 times as wide as long; ocular canthus short and slender (1/4 of ocular diameter), impunctate, with a short terminal seta. Frons completely dull and flat, with fine and sparse punctures, with a few fine and short, erect setae beside eyes and behind frontoclypeal suture. Eyes small, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.5. Antenna with 10 antennomeres; club with three antennomeres, 1.1 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined and straight. Mentum strongly elevated anteriorly, flattened anteriorly. Labrum moderately produced along middle, weakly emarginate medially.</p> <p>Pronotum wide and subtrapezoidal, widest at base, lateral margins evenly and strongly convex and strongly convergent anteriorly; anterior angles distinctly produced and sharp; posterior angles strongly rounded; anterior margin straight, with robust and complete marginal line; surface finely densely punctate, without smooth midline, with a few single fine pale setae on the sides, otherwise only with minute setae; lateral and anterior margins densely setose; hypomeron carinate at base, moderately produced ventrally. Scutellum small, triangular, finely and irregularly sparsely punctate, with minute setae in punctures.</p> <p>Elytra elongate, widest at posterior fifth, striae finely impressed, finely and densely punctate; intervals flat, with fine, sparse punctures; with a few single, fine, short, adpressed white setae on all intervals; epipleural edge fine, ending at moderately curved external apical angle of elytra, epipleura densely setose (but setae in holotype abraded); apical margin narrowly membraneous, with a fine rime of minute microtrichomes (magnification 100x).</p> <p>Ventral surface dull, finely and densely punctate, sparsely setose; metacoxa glabrous, except a few short lateral setae. Mesosternum between mesocoxae half as wide as the slender mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/ 1.31. Abdominal sternites with a transverse row of coarse punctures, each bearing a long seta, otherwise glabrous; penultimate sternite at posterior margin with a wide membraneous rim being a quarter as long as sternite. Pygidium strongly convex and moderately shiny, dark, in punctures yellow, finely and densely punctate, smooth midline narrow, with moderately dense, long and short setae.</p> <p>Legs slender, shiny, pro- and mesofemur dull; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and sparsely punctate between the rows. Metafemur shiny, anterior margin acute, without a continuously serrated line behind anterior edge; ventral posterior margin serrated and only weakly widened at apex, dorsal posterior margin completely serrated, in basal half with a few long setae which are half as long as metafemur width. Metatibia slender and long, widest shortly before apex, ratio of width/ length: 1/4.3, dorsally sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal group at middle, apical group at four fifths of metatibial length, basally with a few single, fine setae; external face sparsely and finely punctate, without wrinkles, glabrous; ventral margin serrated, with two widely separated robust setae; medial face finely sparsely punctate, glabrous; apex interiorly near tarsal articulation bluntly truncate. Tarsomeres ventrally with sparse, minute setae, dorsally impunctate. Metatarsomeres ventrally glabrous, laterally and dorsally carinate, with a strongly serrated ridge ventrally; first metatarsomere little shorter than following two tarsomeres combined and little longer than dorsal tibial spur. Protibia moderately long, bidentate, external margin smooth but bluntly extended at middle; anterior claws asymmetrical, basal tooth of inner claw widened and sharply pointed at apex.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 19A–C. Habitus: Fig. 19D. Female unknown.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Serica smetanai Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species is in shape of aedeagus most similar to Serica avoata Nomura, 1974. Serica smetanai differs by the more strongly arched dorsal lobes of parameres which are of the same length.</p> <p>Etymology. The new species is named (substantive in singular genitive case) after its collector, Aleš Smetana.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFF8FFECFF4359EBFA0CF86E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		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AE7687EAFFF9FFE2FF435F4FFE0AF8C2.text	AE7687EAFFF9FFE2FF435F4FFE0AF8C2.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica (Taiwanoserica) pseudogracilipes (Ahrens 2007) Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2022	<div><p>Serica (T.) pseudogracilipes Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>Figure 19E–H, 25</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “ Taiwan, Hualien Prov. Yuanfeng 2750m, 18.VI.1997 B. Herczig &amp; L. Ronkay ” (HNHM). Paratype: 1 ♀ “ Taiwan, Hualien Prov. Yuanfeng 2750m, 18.VI.1997 B. Herczig &amp; L. Ronkay ” (HNHM).</p> <p>Description of the holotype. Length: 9.0 mm, length of elytra: 6.4 mm, width: 4.5 mm. Body elongate, dark brown, dull, elytra with yellowish-brown with dark brown to reddish brown spots, antenna yellow, base and margins of pronotum lighter; dorsal surface almost glabrous except some short, white setae on elytra.</p> <p>Labroclypeus short, subtrapezoidal, little wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins straight and convergent anteriorly; anterior angles strongly rounded; anterior margin widely emarginate medially; margins moderately reflexed; surface weakly convex and shiny, finely and densely punctate, without wrinkles, with numerous erect setae; frontoclypeal suture finely incised, weakly bent medially; smooth area anterior to eye small and convex, 1.2 times as wide as long; ocular canthus short and slender (1/4 of ocular diameter), impunctate, with a short terminal seta. Frons completely dull and flat, with fine and sparse punctures, with a few fine and short, erect setae beside eyes, behind frontoclypeal suture, and on disc. Eyes very small, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.45. Antenna with 10 antennomeres; club with three antennomeres, as long as remaining antennomeres combined and straight. Mentum strongly elevated anteriorly, flattened anteriorly. Labrum moderately produced along middle, deeply emarginate medially.</p> <p>Pronotum narrow and subtrapezoidal, widest at base, lateral margins in basal half subparallel and almost straight, at middle convexly bent, in anterior half again straight and convergent anteriorly; anterior angles distinctly produced and sharp; posterior angles strongly rounded; anterior margin straight, with robust and complete marginal line; surface finely densely punctate, without smooth midline, with a few single fine pale setae on sides, otherwise only with minute setae; lateral and anterior margins densely setose; hypomeron carinate at base, moderately produced ventrally. Scutellum small, triangular, finely and irregularly sparsely punctate, with minute setae in punctures, base impunctate.</p> <p>Elytra elongate, widest at posterior fifth, striae finely impressed, finely and densely punctate; intervals flat, with fine, sparse punctures; with a few single, fine, short, adpressed white setae on all intervals; epipleural edge fine, ending at moderately curved external apical angle of elytra, epipleura densely setose (but setae in holotype abraded); apical margin narrowly membraneous, with a fine rime of minute microtrichomes (magnification 100x).</p> <p>Ventral surface dull, finely and densely punctate, sparsely setose; metacoxa glabrous, except a few short lateral setae. Mesosternum between mesocoxae half as wide as the slender mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/ 1.42. Abdominal sternites with a transverse row of coarse punctures, each bearing a long seta, otherwise glabrous; penultimate sternite at posterior margin with a wide membraneous rim being a quarter as long as sternite. Pygidium strongly convex and moderately shiny, dark, in punctures yellow, finely and densely punctate, smooth midline narrow, with moderately dense, long and short setae.</p> <p>Legs slender, shiny, pro- and mesofemur dull; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and sparsely punctate between the rows. Metafemur shiny, anterior margin acute, without a continuously serrated line behind anterior edge; ventral posterior margin serrated and only weakly widened at apex, dorsal posterior margin completely serrated, in basal half with a few long setae which are half as long as metafemur width. Metatibia slender and long, widest shortly before apex, ratio of width/ length: 1/4.4, dorsally sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal group at middle, apical group at four fifths of metatibial length, basally with a few single, fine setae; external face sparsely and finely punctate, without wrinkles, glabrous; ventral margin serrated, with two widely separated robust setae; medial face finely sparsely punctate, glabrous; apex interiorly near tarsal articulation bluntly truncate. Tarsomeres ventrally with sparse, minute setae, dorsally impunctate. Metatarsomeres ventrally glabrous, laterally and dorsally carinate, with a few indistinct dorsal punctures, a strongly serrated ridge ventrally; first metatarsomere little shorter than following two tarsomeres combined and little longer than dorsal tibial spur. Protibia moderately long, bidentate, external margin smooth but bluntly extended at middle; anterior claws asymmetrical, basal tooth of inner claw widened and sharply pointed at apex.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 19E–G. Habitus: Fig. 19H.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Serica pseudogracilipes Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species is in shape of aedeagus very similar to Serica niitakana Sawada, 1939, S. yui Kobayashi, 1993 and S. gracilipes Nomura, 1974, both occurrring also in Taiwan. Serica pseudogracilipes differs from the latter two by the finer parameres including their dorsal lobes (dorsal view), which are at middle stronger bent than in Serica yui but not as strong as in S. gracilipes (lateral view). From Serica niitakana it differs by the wider aedeagus and the strongly curved parameres (both dosal view).</p> <p>Etymology. The name of new species is derived from the combined Greek prefix ‘ pseudo- ’ (substantive in singular genitive case) and the species name ‘ gracilipes ’, with references to the similarity of the species to S. gracilipes Nomura, 1974.</p> <p>Variation. Length: 9.0– 9.5 mm, length of elytra: 6.4–6.9 mm, width: 4.5–5.0 mm. Female: antennal club short, as long as remaining antennomeres combined; pygidium weakly convex; eyes smaller than in male, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.48.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFF9FFE2FF435F4FFE0AF8C2	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		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AE7687EAFFF7FFE1FF4359EBFEA8FACE.text	AE7687EAFFF7FFE1FF4359EBFEA8FACE.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Nipponoserica daqiao Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2022	<div><p>Nipponoserica daqiao Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species</p> <p>Figures 20A–D, 25</p> <p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “China-Guangdong, Daqiao env., 1000-1200m 24°54’N - 113°01’E, 1- 3.v.2002, Dr. R. Fencl lgt./ Coll. P. Pacholatko / 1151 Sericini: Asia spec.” (CP).</p> <p>Description of the holotype. Length: 7.8 mm, length of elytra: 5.4 mm, width: 4.2 mm. Body oblong, dorsal surface yellow, frons and ventral surface darker brown, legs and antenna yellowish brown, dorsal surface entirely shiny and glabrous.</p> <p>Labroclypeus subtrapezoidal and moderately wide, widest at base; lateral margins convex and convergent to moderately rounded anterior angles; lateral margin and ocular canthus producing a distinct blunt angle; margins weakly reflexed; anterior margin distinctly emarginate medially; surface flat and shiny, finely and very densely punctate, distance between punctures less than their diameter, anteriorly with a few short, erect setae. Frontoclypeal suture feebly incised and medially weakly angled; smooth area in front of eye short, approximately twice as wide as long; ocular canthus moderately long and slender, finely and densely punctate, with a short terminal seta. Frons with fine and dense punctures, entirely glabrous. Eyes very moderately large, ratio of diameter/interocular width: 0.63. Antenna with nine antennomeres; club with three antennomeres, almost 2.3 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined, strongly reflexed. Mentum elevated and flattened anteriorly. Labrum slightly produced and shallowly emarginate medially.</p> <p>Pronotum wide and transverse, widest at base, lateral margins moderately evenly convex and narrowed anteriorly; anterior angles moderately produced and sharp, posterior angles blunt but strongly rounded at tip; anterior margin strongly and convexly produced medially with a distinct and broad marginal line; basal margin without marginal line; surface with dense and fine punctures, partly punctures fusing to wrinkles, glabrous; anterior and lateral borders sparsely setose; hypomeron distinctly carinate at base, not produced ventrally. Scutellum narrow and long, with fine and moderately dense punctures, impunctate along the middle, glabrous.</p> <p>Elytra oblong, widest in posterior third, striae distinctly impressed, finely and densely punctate; intervals weakly convex, second interval flat, with fine and dense punctures concentrated along striae; surface glabrous except for a few fine setae on odd intervals; epipleural border robust, weakly reflexed, ending at strongly curved external apical angle; epipleura densely setaceous; apical border membraneous, with a very fine rim of short microtrichomes (visible at 100x magnification).</p> <p>Ventral surface partly dull or shiny, with dense, large punctures, sparsely setose, only on metasternal disc with a few longer setae. Mesosternum between mesocoxae almost as wide as mesofemur, with irregularly scattered, strong setae. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/1.1. Metacoxa glabrous, laterally with a few fine setae. Abdominal sternites with fine, dense punctation, each with indistinct transversal row of coarse punctures bearing a short seta; penultimate sternite with a shallow and short median furrow and a pair of blunt protuberances beside it. Pygidium dull and strongly convex, finely and densely punctate, without smooth midline, with sparse short setae and a few longer setae adjacent to apical margin.</p> <p>Legs slender, shiny; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and moderately densely punctate. Metafemur shiny, anterior margin acute, without a submarginal serrated line; posterior ventral margin straight, with a few strong setae medially, weakly widened in apical half and serrate; dorsal posterior margin completely serrated, with short setae. Metatibia slender and long, widest shortly before apex, ratio width/length: 1/4.2; dorsal margin sharply carinate, with one group of spines (basal group of spines reduced) at four-fifths of metatibial length, basally with a few single spines in punctures; external face beside dorsal margin longitudinally roof-like carinate, impunctate but with some longitudinal, very superficial wrinkles; ventral margin finely serrate, with two widely separated robust setae; medial face sparsely but coarsely punctate, without wrinkles; apex bluntly truncate interiorly near tarsal articulation. Tarsomeres glabrous and impunctate dorsally, with sparse, short setae ventrally; metatarsomeres dorsally with weak longitudinal impressions, ventrally with a strongly serrated ridge and a fine longitudinal carina laterally; first metatarsomere little longer than second, one third of its length longer than dorsal tibial spur. Protibia moderately long, bidentate; protarsal claws symmetrical, basal tooth of interior claw sharply pointed as the external one. Aedeagus: Parameres asymmetrical, without long basal lobes.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Fig. 20A–C. Habitus: Fig. 20D. Female unknown.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Nipponoserica daqiao Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, new species differs from all shiny Nipponoserica species by its asymmetric parameres.</p> <p>Etymology. The new species is named (noun in apposition) after the type locality Daqiao.</p> <p>New records:</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFF7FFE1FF4359EBFEA8FACE	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		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AE7687EAFFF5FFE1FF435CD6FB62F9E6.text	AE7687EAFFF5FFE1FF435CD6FB62F9E6.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica davidkrali Ahrens & Fabrizi 2009	<div><p>Serica davidkrali Ahrens &amp; Fabrizi, 2009</p> <p>Additional material material: 1 ♂ “ Yaojiaping, Lushui, Yunnan, 2.VI.1981, 2500m, leg. Zhang Xuezhong ” (IZAS), 1 ♂ “ Yunlong, Yunnan, 20.VI.1981, 2450m, leg. Liao Subai ” (IZAS), 1 ♂ “ China, C-Yunnan, SE of Jongdong, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=101.36667&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=24.15" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 101.36667/lat 24.15)">Ailao Shan</a>, 24°09’N, 101°22’E 2600-2900m, 14.-19.VI.2014, pitf. Tr., leg. Reuter ” (ZFMK).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFF5FFE1FF435CD6FB62F9E6	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFFF5FFE1FF435FDAFB33F82A.text	AE7687EAFFF5FFE1FF435FDAFB33F82A.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica segregata Arrow 1946	<div><p>Serica segregata Arrow, 1946</p> <p>Additional material material: 4 ex. “ China, W Yunnan prov., mts. 60 Km E <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=98.76833&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=24.825556" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 98.76833/lat 24.825556)">Tengchong</a>, 2300m, 14.-19.v.2006 S. Murzin &amp; I. Shokin leg.” (CP), 1 ex. “ China: Yunnan [CH07-13A] Baoshan Pref., Gaoligong Shan, E pass, 36km SE Tengchong, 2200m, 24°49’32’’N, 98°46’06’’E, decid. Forest, litter, wood, fungi sifted, 4.VI.2007, leg. A. Pütz ” (CA).</p> <p>Remark. The species is for first time recorded from China (see Ahrens &amp; Fabrizi 2009).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFF5FFE1FF435FDAFB33F82A	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFFF2FFE6FF435C19FE50F9BC.text	AE7687EAFFF2FFE6FF435C19FE50F9BC.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica langeri Ahrens & Fabrizi 2011	<div><p>Serica langeri Ahrens &amp; Fabrizi, 2011</p> <p>Additional material examined. 4 ex. “ Myanmar (Burma) Provinz Kanchin State, Ca. 20 km N von Kanphant, 23.05.2006, 2180m, N25°43’30.2’’ E098°23’35.3’’, Nachtfang, leg. M. Langer, S. Naumann &amp; S. Löffler Coll. Michael Langer ” (ZFMK).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFF2FFE6FF435C19FE50F9BC	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFFF2FFE6FF435F1DFC5CF8E0.text	AE7687EAFFF2FFE6FF435F1DFC5CF8E0.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica lijiangensis Ahrens 2005	<div><p>Serica lijiangensis Ahrens, 2005</p> <p>Additional material examined. 1 ♂ “ China, Yunnan prov. <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=100.19&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=27.13" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 100.19/lat 27.13)">Heishui</a> 35km N Lijiang 18.6- 4.7.1993, 27.13N; 100.19E lgt. S. Becvar ” (ZFMK), 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀ “ Yaojiaping, Lushui, Yunnan, 2.VI.1981, 2500m, light trap, leg. Wang Shuyong ” (IZAS), 1 ♂ “ Mts. Yulongshan, Lijiang, Yunnan, 28.VI.1962, leg. Song Shimei ”(IZAS), 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀ “ Yaojiaping, Lushui, Yunnan, 2.VI.1981, 2500m, light trap, leg. Zhang Xuezhong, Wang Shuyong ” (IZAS), 1 ♂ “ Qingtian Ge, Weixi, Yunnan, 23.VII.1981, light trap, leg. Wang Shuyong ” (IZAS).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFF2FFE6FF435F1DFC5CF8E0	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFFF3FFE7FF435FFFFEEBF8B9.text	AE7687EAFFF3FFE7FF435FFFFEEBF8B9.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica baiyungshanica Ahrens 2005	<div><p>Serica baiyungshanica Ahrens, 2005</p> <p>Additional material examined. 1 ♂ “ Mts. Ailaoshan, Jingdong, Yunnan, 7-9.VIII.2009, leg. Xu Jishan, Zhang Liuxiang” (HBUM).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFF3FFE7FF435FFFFEEBF8B9	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFFF3FFE4FF435E27FC6DFED6.text	AE7687EAFFF3FFE4FF435E27FC6DFED6.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica dathei Ahrens 2005	<div><p>Serica dathei Ahrens, 2005</p> <p>Additional material examined. 1 ex. “Kuatun (2300 m) 27,40 n.Br. 117,40 ö. L. J. Klapperich 28.4. 1938 (<a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-117.4&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=27.4" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -117.4/lat 27.4)">Fukien</a>)/ ex. Coll. V. Balthasar National Museum Prague, Czech Republic ” (NMPC), 1 ex. “Kuatun (2300 m) 27, 40 n.Br. 117,40 ö. L. J. Klapperich 12.5. 1938 (Fukien)/ ex. Coll. V. Balthasar National Museum Prague, Czech Republic ” (NMPC), 1 ex. “ Kuatun (2300 m) 27, 40 n. Br. 117,40 ö. L. J. Klapperich 10.6. 1938 (Fukien)/ ex. Coll. V. Balthasar National Museum Prague, Czech Republic ” (NMPC), 1 ex. “ Kuatun Fukien China, 16.5.46 (Tschung Sen.)/ ex. Coll. V. Balthasar National Museum Prague, Czech Republic ” (NMPC), 2 ex. “ China Fukien 02.V.1938 leg. Klapperich ZFMK Bonn ” (ZFMK), 4 ex. “ China Fukien 03.V.1938 leg. Klapperich ZFMK Bonn ” (ZFMK), 1 ♂ “ Kuatun (2300 m) 27, 40 n. Br. 117,40 ö. L. J. Klapperich 3.5.1938 (Fukien) ” (ZFMK).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFF3FFE4FF435E27FC6DFED6	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFFF3FFE7FF435C1FFCD7F981.text	AE7687EAFFF3FFE7FF435C1FFCD7F981.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica hirtella Ahrens 2005	<div><p>Serica hirtella Ahrens, 2005</p> <p>Additional material examined. 1 ♂ “ Mts. Zhibenshan, Yunlong, Yunnan, 20.VI.1981, 2500m, leg. Zhang Xuezhong ” (IZAS), 1 ♂ “ Pantiange, Weixi, Yunnan, 23.VII.1981, 2500m, light trap, leg. Wang Shuyong ” (IZAS), 1 ♂ “ Sanshenggou, Wolong, Sichuan, 9.VIII.1983, 2500m, leg. Niu Chenlai ” (IZAS), 1 ♂ “ Mts. Zhibenshan, Yunlong, Yunnan, 20.VI.1981, 2500m, leg. Zhang Xuezhong ” (IZAS).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFF3FFE7FF435C1FFCD7F981	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFFF0FFE4FF4358CBFDE1FD8E.text	AE7687EAFFF0FFE4FF4358CBFDE1FD8E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica feisintsiensis Ahrens 2007	<div><p>Serica feisintsiensis Ahrens, 2007</p> <p>Additional material examined. 432 ex. “ China: Sichuan; Wolong Reserve, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=103.1&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=31.15" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 103.1/lat 31.15)">Sigulian Shan</a>, 31º09’N 103º06’E v.2006, 1500-1800m V. Siniaev ” (ZFMK).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFF0FFE4FF4358CBFDE1FD8E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFFF0FFE4FF435BF3FC86FC8A.text	AE7687EAFFF0FFE4FF435BF3FC86FC8A.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica nanjiangana Ahrens 2005	<div><p>Serica nanjiangana Ahrens, 2005</p> <p>Additional material examined. 4 ♂♂, 21 ♀♀ “ China: Sichuan; Wolong Reserve, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=103.1&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=31.15" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 103.1/lat 31.15)">Sigulian Shan</a>, 31º09’N 103º06’E v.2006, 1500-1800m V. Siniaev ” (ZFMK), 1 ex. “ China-Shaanxi, Daba Shan, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=108.566666&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=32.233334" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 108.566666/lat 32.233334)">Shou Man</a> vil., 32°14’N, 108°34’E, 25.v.-14.vi.2000, 1000m, Siniaev &amp; Plutenko leg.” (CP).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFF0FFE4FF435BF3FC86FC8A	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFFF1FFE5FF435FBBFD3CF8FE.text	AE7687EAFFF1FFE5FF435FBBFD3CF8FE.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Nipponoserica jiankouensis Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2017	<div><p>Nipponoserica jiankouensis Ahrens, Fabrizi &amp; Liu, 2017</p> <p>Additional material examined. 1 ♂ “CH-Guizhou NE 27.V.-3.VI. 20 km NW of Jiankou 1995 Fanjing Shan-Kuaichang E. Jendek &amp; O. Sausa leg./ CS11” (CP).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFF1FFE5FF435FBBFD3CF8FE	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFFF1FFE5FF435DFBFAF9FB5A.text	AE7687EAFFF1FFE5FF435DFBFAF9FB5A.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica (Taiwanoserica) chengtuensis Ahrens 2009	<div><p>Serica (Taiwanoserica) chengtuensis Ahrens, 2009</p> <p>Additional material examined. 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀ “ Miaotaizi, Shaanxi, 6.IX.1991, leg. Tian Rungang ” (MNAFU).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFF1FFE5FF435DFBFAF9FB5A	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFFF1FFE5FF435F6FFA00F9C6.text	AE7687EAFFF1FFE5FF435F6FFA00F9C6.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica (Taiwanoserica) sigipinensis Ahrens 2009	<div><p>Serica (Taiwanoserica) sigipinensis Ahrens, 2009</p> <p>Additional material examined. 1 ♂ “ Jiulaoci, Mts. Emeishan, Sichuan, 28.VII.1957, leg. Huang Keren ” (IZAS).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFF1FFE5FF435F6FFA00F9C6	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFFF1FFE5FF435C47FF65FA72.text	AE7687EAFFF1FFE5FF435C47FF65FA72.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica (Taiwanoserica) wenchuanensis Ahrens 2009	<div><p>Serica (Taiwanoserica) wenchuanensis Ahrens, 2009</p> <p>Additional material examined. 1 ♂ “ Wolong, Wenchuan, Sichuan, 29.VII.1983, 1920m, leg. Wang Shuyong ” (IZAS).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFF1FFE5FF435C47FF65FA72	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFFF1FFE5FF4359EBFCA2FD8E.text	AE7687EAFFF1FFE5FF4359EBFCA2FD8E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica nigroguttata Brenske 1897	<div><p>Serica nigroguttata Brenske, 1897</p> <p>Additional material examined. China: 1 ex. “ Kuatun (2300 m) 27, 40 n. Br. 117,40 ö.L. J. <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-117.4&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=27.4" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -117.4/lat 27.4)">Klapperich</a> 1.5. 1938 (Fukien)/ ex. Coll. V. Balthasar National Museum Prague, Czech Republic ” (NMPC), 1 ex. “ Kuatun (2300 m) 27, 40 n. <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-117.4&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=27.4" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -117.4/lat 27.4)">Br.</a> 117,40 ö. L. J. Klapperich 8.6. 1938 (Fukien)/ ex. Coll. V. Balthasar National Museum Prague, Czech Republic ” (NMPC), 1 ex. “ Kuatun (2300 m) 27, 40 n. <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-117.4&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=27.4" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -117.4/lat 27.4)">Br.</a> 117,40 ö. L. J. Klapperich 2.6. 1938 (Fukien)/ ex. Coll. V. Balthasar National Museum Prague, Czech Republic ” (NMPC), 1 ex. “ Kuatun (2300 m) 27, 40 n. <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-117.4&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=27.4" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -117.4/lat 27.4)">Br.</a> 117,40 ö. L. J. Klapperich 26.5. 1938 (Fukien)/ ex. Coll. V. Balthasar National Museum Prague, Czech Republic ” (NMPC), 1 ex. “ Kuatun Fukien China 11.5.46 (Tschung-Sen.)/ ex. Coll. V. Balthasar National Museum Prague, Czech Republic ” (NMPC), 2 ♂♂ “ China, Guangdong prov. Nanling National Nature Reserve Dadongshan, 18.-21.iv.2013, (border of mixed forest, at light) 24°56.0’N, 112°42.#E, 690 m J. Hájek &amp; J. Růžička leg.” (NMPC). Vietnam: 1 ♂ “ Vietnam, Vinh Phu, Tam Dao; 02.-04.V.1993; leg. M. Hori ” (ZFMK).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFF1FFE5FF4359EBFCA2FD8E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFFF1FFE5FF435AF7FE50FB86.text	AE7687EAFFF1FFE5FF435AF7FE50FB86.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica velutina Arrow 1946	<div><p>Serica velutina Arrow, 1946</p> <p>Additional material examined. 6 ex. “ Myanmar (Burma) Provinz Kanchin State, Mt. Emaw Bum nach Kanphant, 28.05.2006, N26°09’23.2’’ E098°31’16.4 ’’ Waldcamp Holzmeiler, leg. M. Langer, S. Naumann &amp; S. Loeffler Coll. Michael Langer ” (ZFMK).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFF1FFE5FF435AF7FE50FB86	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
AE7687EAFFF1FFE5FF435BF3FBF6FC8A.text	AE7687EAFFF1FFE5FF435BF3FBF6FC8A.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Serica werneri Ahrens 2007	<div><p>Serica werneri Ahrens, 2007</p> <p>Additional material examined. 2 ♂♂ “Laos-NE <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=104.01035&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=20.2023" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 104.01035/lat 20.2023)">Houa Phan prov.</a>, 20°12.138’N, 104°00.621’E, Phu Phan Mt., 1750m, 17.5.- 3.6.2007, Vit Kubán leg.” (ZFMK), 1 ♂ “Laos-NE <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=104.01667&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=20.2" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 104.01667/lat 20.2)">Houa Phan prov.</a>, Ban Saluei, Phou Pan (Mt.) 20°12’N, 104°01’E, 1300-1900m, leg. C. Holzschuh – ZFMK Ankauf 2012” (ZFMK).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE7687EAFFF1FFE5FF435BF3FBF6FC8A	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ahrens, Dirk;Fabrizi, Silvia;Bai, Ming;Liu, Wangang	Ahrens, Dirk, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming, Liu, Wangang (2022): Taxonomic revision of Serica MacLeay, 1819 (sensu lato) from China and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), with updates on Nipponoserica Nomura, 1972. Zootaxa 5186 (1): 1-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5186.1.1
