Insecta - Coleoptera - Scarabaeidae
Alternative spellings: Sericidae, Sericinae
Full reference: W. Kirby. 1837. The insects. Fauna Boreali-Americana; or the Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America: Containing Descriptions of the Objects of Natural History Collected on the Late Northern Land Expeditions, under Command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N 4:1-325
Parent taxon: Melolonthinae according to P. Bouchard et al. 2011
See also Krell 2000, Nikolajev 2007 and Statz 1952
Sister taxa: Cretomelolonthini, Diplotaxini, Eophyllocerus, Euchirini, Hopliini, Listrochelus, Macrodactylini, Melolonthini, Melolonthites
Subtaxa: Cretoserica Lithanomala Maladera Mioserica Sericina
Type: Serica
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Tanzania (1 collection), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: California)
• Miocene of China (1), Germany (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Eocene of the Russian Federation (1), United States (3: Colorado)
• Cretaceous of the Russian Federation (2)
Total: 12 collections including 14 occurrences