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Serica lurida

species of beetle

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ14860129 ↗
Source-derived summary

Serica lurida is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in Sri Lanka.

Description

Adults reach a length of about 5.5 mm. They have a reddish brown, oblong, suboval body, with the antennae and legs also reddish brown. The head and pronotum have a strong green metallic shine, while this shine is weak on the elytra. The dorsal surface is dull and nearly glabrous.

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“Serica lurida” enters the record as species of beetle. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Serica, lurida and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current 68-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Serica, lurida and species.
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“Serica lurida” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Serica, lurida and species provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q14860129. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Serica lurida” 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.