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Microserica shelfordi

species of beetle

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ14860609 ↗
Source-derived summary

Microserica shelfordi is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in Malaysia (Sarawak).

Description

Adults reach a length of about 7 mm. They are bright red or rust-red above and beneath, with the elytra usually black except for a narrow red basal margin. The antennae and femora are bright yellow and the tibiae and tarsi red.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Microserica shelfordi” is species of beetle. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Microserica, shelfordi and species, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current 60-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Microserica, shelfordi and species is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “species of beetle” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q14860609. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Microserica shelfordi” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.