Sericania Motschulsky, 1860

Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), Megataxa 12 (1), pp. 104-175 : 147

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Sericania Motschulsky, 1860 View in CoL

[54 species and additional subspecies].

Type species Sericania fuscolineata Motschulsky, 1860 View in CoL , by monotypy.

Note: Motschulsky (1860) spelt the genus as Sericaria (p. 136) and Sericania View in CoL (pp. 137, 256); the latter is in prevailing usage.

Sericania (Mesoserica) Matsumura, 1911 View in CoL (not Mesoserica Brenske, 1897 View in CoL ).

Type species Sericania (Mesoserica) sachalinensis Matsumura, 1911 View in CoL , by monotypy.

Synonymy by Kobayashi (1974).

References

Brenske, E. (1897) Neue Gattungen und Arten der Melolonthiden aus Afrika und Asien. Stettiner entomologische Zeitung, 58, 96-120.

Kobayashi H. (1974) Notes on the sericid beetles (Scarabaeidae) from Tobira-spa, Nagano pref. (I). New Insect, 18 (3), 1-10.

Matsumura, S. (1911) Erster beitrag zur Insekten-Fauna von Sachalin. Journal of the Faculty Agriculture Tohoku Imperial University, 4, 1-145.

Motschulsky, V. (1860) Zweite Lieferung. Coleopteren. Coleopteres rapportes de la Siberie orientale et notamment des pays situees sur les bords du fleuve Amour par Mm. Schrenck, Maack, Ditmar, Voznessenski etc. In: Schrenck, L. Reisen und Forschungen im Amur-Lande in den Jahren 1854 - 1856. Band II. Eggers, St Petersburg, Russia, pp. 79-257.