Tetraserica miniatula (Moser, 1915)

Fabrizi, Silvia, Dalstein, Vivian & Ahrens, Dirk, 2019, A monograph on the genus Tetraserica from the Indochinese region (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Sericini), ZooKeys 837, pp. 1-155 : 27

Tetraserica miniatula (Moser, 1915) Figures 7, 56

Neoserica miniatula Moser, 1915: 171.

Tetraserica miniatula : Ahrens and Fabrizi 2016: 125.

Type material examined.

Lectotype (here designated): ♂ "Pegu India/ Neoserica miniatula Type ♂ Moser" (ZMHB). Paralectotype: 1 ♀ "Pegu India/ Neoserica miniatula Type ♀ Moser" (ZMHB).

Redescription. Length of body: 8.0 mm; length of elytra: 5.8 mm; maximum width: 4.8 mm. Surface of labroclypeus and disc of frons glabrous. Smooth area anterior to eye twice as wide as long. Eyes large, ratio of diameter/interocular width: 0.72. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/1.62. Metatibia moderately long and wide, ratio width/length: 1/3.07; basal group of dorsal spines of metatibia at first third of metatibial length.

Female: Antennal club with three antennomeres, as long as remaining antennomeres combined. Eyes smaller than in male, ratio of diameter/interocular width: 0.64. Pygidium flat.

Aedeagus: Fig. 7 A–C. Habitus: Fig. 7D.