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Serica brunnea

Insecta - Coleoptera - Scarabaeidae

Taxonomy
Scarabaeus brunnus was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It is the type species of Serica.

It was recombined as Melolontha brunnea by Fabricius (1775); it was recombined as Serica brunna by Krell (1996); it was misspelled as Scarabaeus brunneus by Müller (1776), Goeze (1777); it was recombined as Serica brunnea by Green et al. (2006), Allsopp and Schoolmeesters (2024).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Scarabaeus brunnus Linnaeus p. 352
1761Scarabaeus brunneus Linnaeus p. 138
1767Scarabaeus brunnus Linnaeus p. 556
1768Scarabaeus brunneus Strøm p. 316
1774Scarabaeus brunnus De Geer p. 277
1775Melolontha brunnea Fabricius p. 36
1776Scarabaeus brunneus Müller p. 55
1777Scarabaeus brunneus Goeze p. 44
1996Serica brunna Krell p. 15
2006Serica brunnea Green et al.
2024Serica brunnea Allsopp and Schoolmeesters p. 146

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
RankNameAuthor
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderStaphyliniformia
superfamilyScarabaeoidea
familyScarabaeidae()
subfamilySericinae()
tribeSericini()
genusSericaMacLeay 1819
speciesbrunnea()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Serica brunnea Linnaeus 1758
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Middle Pleistocene or 0.77400 to 0.12900 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129United Kingdom Serica brunnea (168268)