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Tetraserica soppongana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Scarabaeiformia
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Genus:	Tetraserica
Species:	T. soppongana
Binomial name
	Tetraserica soppongana; Fabrizi, Dalstein & Ahrens, 2019

Tetraserica soppongana is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.^[1] It is found in Thailand.^[2]^[3]

Description

Adults reach a length of about 6.9 mm. The body is yellowish brown, while the head is dark and the antennae are yellow. The surface of the labroclypeus and the disc of the frons are glabrous. The smooth area anterior to the eye is twice as wide as long.^[3]

Etymology

The species is named after the type locality, Sop Pong.^[3]

References

↑ BioLib
↑ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Tetraserica soppongana at Catalogue of Life". World Scarabaeidae Database (version 2025-10-07). In O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D. R. Hernández Robles, C. A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, T. Pape, D. Hobern, S. Garnett, H. Little, R. E. DeWalt, J. Miller, T. Orrell, & R. Aalbu, Catalogue of Life (2025-10-10 XR). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Catalogue of Life Foundation. Retrieved November 10, 2025.
1 2 3 Fabrizi, Silvia; Dalstein, Vivian; Ahrens, Dirk (April 9, 2019). "A monograph on the genus Tetraserica from the Indochinese region (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Sericini)". ZooKeys (837). Pensoft: 1–155. Bibcode:2019ZooK..837....1F. doi:10.3897/zookeys.837.32057. PMC 6477869. PMID 31048963. Retrieved November 10, 2025. This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.

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[:1-2] Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Tetraserica soppongana at Catalogue of Life". World Scarabaeidae Database (version 2025-10-07). In O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D. R. Hernández Robles, C. A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, T. Pape, D. Hobern, S. Garnett, H. Little, R. E. DeWalt, J. Miller, T. Orrell, & R. Aalbu, Catalogue of Life (2025-10-10 XR). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Catalogue of Life Foundation. Retrieved November 10, 2025.

[:3-3] 1 2 3 Fabrizi, Silvia; Dalstein, Vivian; Ahrens, Dirk (April 9, 2019). "A monograph on the genus Tetraserica from the Indochinese region (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Sericini)". ZooKeys (837). Pensoft: 1–155. Bibcode:2019ZooK..837....1F. doi:10.3897/zookeys.837.32057. PMC 6477869. PMID 31048963. Retrieved November 10, 2025. This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.

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