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Serica brunna

Insecta - Coleoptera - Scarabaeidae

Taxonomy
Scarabaeus brunnus was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.

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) and Goeze (1777); it was recombined as Serica brunnea by Green et al. (2006).

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.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
RankNameAuthor
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderStaphyliniformia
superfamilyScarabaeoidea
familyScarabaeidae()
subfamilyMelolonthinae()
tribeSericini()
subtribeSericina
genusSericaMacLeay 1819
speciesbrunna()

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 brunna 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)