Neoserica fartula

Neoserica fartula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Scarabaeiformia
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Genus:	Neoserica
Species:	N. fartula
Binomial name
Neoserica fartula (Péringuey, 1904)
Synonyms
Autoserica fartulaPéringuey, 1904

Neoserica fartula is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. ^[1] It is found in Mozambique, South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal) and Zimbabwe. ^{[2] [3]}

Description

Adults reach a length of about 9.5-11.5 mm. They are fuscous with a metallic tinge, and occasionally with the elytra chestnut-brown and the costules darker, not tessellate. The prothorax is covered with moderately closely set punctures bearing each a minute flavescent hair. The punctures on the scutellum are deep and the hairs longer, but appressed. The wide, convex elytra have along the base, on each side of the scutellum, squamose appressed hairs longer and denser than those springing from the somewhat scattered, shallow punctures of the surface, and in addition five partly gemminate rows on each side of remote sub-erect, white, bristle-like hairs. ^[3]

References

1. BioLib
2. Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Neoserica (Autoserica) fartula 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 January 7, 2026.
3. Péringuey, L. (1904). "Descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa (Lucanidae and Scarabaeidae)" (PDF). Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 13 (1): 1–293. Retrieved January 7, 2026. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .