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Serica perigonia
Serica perigonia is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in the United States (California, Utah) and Mexico (Baja California).
From the article Serica perigonia on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Adults reach a length of about 8 mm. The colour is auburn. The surface is opaque, lightly covered with a greyish bloom or pollen, and showing traces of a brilliant iridescence.
In human culture
Adults have been recorded feeding on Adenostoma fasciculatum, Abies concolor, flowers and foliage of Eriogonum fasciculatum, flowers of Malosoma laurina, Sambucus mexicana and Adenostoma sparsifolium.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Life history”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 132345.