Overview
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Taxonomy
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The Tribe Sericini is a member of the Subfamily Melolonthinae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Sericini:
- Domain: Eukaryota
Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Animalia
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa
A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
- Superphylum: Panarthropoda
Cuvier
- Phylum: Arthropoda
Latreille, 1829 - Arthropods
- Subphylum: Mandibulata
Snodgrass, 1938
- Infraphylum: Atelocerata
Heymons, 1901
- Superclass: Panhexapoda
- Class: Insecta
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Insects
- Subclass: Dicondylia
- Infraclass: Pterygota
- Winged Insects
- Order: Coleoptera
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Beetles
- Suborder: Polyphaga
Emery, 1886 - a genus of Blister Beetles (Meloidae)
- Infraorder: Scarabaeiformia
- Superfamily: Scarabaeoidea
Latreille, 1802
- Family: Scarabaeidae
Latreille, 1802 - Scarab Beetles
- Subfamily: Melolonthinae
- May Beetles and June Bugs
- Tribe: Sericini
- Subfamily: Melolonthinae
- May Beetles and June Bugs
- Family: Scarabaeidae
Latreille, 1802 - Scarab Beetles
- Superfamily: Scarabaeoidea
Latreille, 1802
- Infraorder: Scarabaeiformia
- Suborder: Polyphaga
Emery, 1886 - a genus of Blister Beetles (Meloidae)
- Order: Coleoptera
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Beetles
- Infraclass: Pterygota
- Winged Insects
- Subclass: Dicondylia
- Class: Insecta
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Insects
- Superclass: Panhexapoda
- Infraphylum: Atelocerata
Heymons, 1901
- Subphylum: Mandibulata
Snodgrass, 1938
- Phylum: Arthropoda
Latreille, 1829 - Arthropods
- Superphylum: Panarthropoda
Cuvier
- Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa
A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Kingdom: Animalia
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
The Tribe Sericini is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Subtribe (2): Phyllotocina · Sericina
- Genus (4): Homaloplia · Omaloplia · Phyllotocus · Serica
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 118 species and subspecies in the Tribe Sericini.
Genera
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Homaloplia
Omaloplia
Phyllotocus
Serica
Serica, the land of the Seres, was the name by which the Greco-Romans referred to a country in Central Asia. [more]
At least 86 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Serica.
More info about the Genus Serica may be found here.
Sources
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