Amiserica

Amiserica
Amiserica curvifemorata
Amiserica mogok
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Scarabaeiformia
Family: Scarabaeidae
Subfamily: Sericinae
Tribe: Sericini
Genus: Amiserica
Nomura, 1974
Type species
Amiserica rufidula
Nomura, 1974
Diversity
60+ species

Amiserica is a genus of scarab beetles that belongs to the subfamily Sericinae.

Distribution

Members of this genus can be found distributed across Asia being found in Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, China,Taiwan, the Himalayan regions and adjacent regions such as India, etc.

Taxonomy

Species

This genus currently contains more than 60 described species. They are listed below:

References

  1. ↑ BioLib
  2. ↑ "Genus Amiserica". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2026-05-18.
  3. ↑ Ahrens, Dirk. (1999). New species and records of Gynaecoserica Brenske, 1896, Calloserica Brenske, 1894, Nepaloserica Frey, 1965 and Lasioserica Brenske, 1896 from the Himalayas and adjacent regions. (Coleoptera: Melolonthidae, Sericini).. Entomologische Abhandlungen. 58.
  4. ↑ Ahrens, Dirk & Fabrizi, Silvia. (2016). A monograph of Sericini of India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Bonn Zoological Bulletin. 65. 1-355.
  5. ↑ Ahrens, Dirk; Liu, Wangang; Pham, Phu VAN; Fabrizi, Silvia (2021-10-11). "An overview on the genus Amiserica Nomura, 1974 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini)". Zootaxa. 5050 (1): 1–63. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5050.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 34810778.
  6. 1 2 Botjes, Lia; Ahrens, Dirk (2026-05-11). "New Sericini from Myanmar (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Sericinae)". Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift. 73 (1): 115–128. doi:10.3897/dez.73.186799. ISSN 1860-1324.