Bibliography for Sericinae

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• Dejean, P.F.M.A. 1821. Catalogue de la Collection de Coléoptères de M. le Baron Dejean. Paris : Crevot, Libraire viii 136 pp.
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• Fischer [de Waldheim], G. 1823. Coleoptera quaedam exotica, descripta. Mémoires de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 6: 254-267
• Guérin-Méneville, F.É. 1830. Iconographie du Règne Animal de G. Cuvier, ou représentation d'après nature de l'une des espèces les plus remarquables et souvent non figurées de chaque genre d'animaux. Avec un texte descriptif mis au courant de la science. Ouvrage pouvant servir d'atlas à tous les traités de zoologie. Insectes. Paris : Baillière pls 21-24.
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• Harold, E. von 1869. Abänderungen vergebener Namen. Coleopterologische Hefte 5: 122-125
• Hawkeswood, T.J. 1992. Diphucephala bernhardti sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) from heathlands of north-eastern New South Wales, Australia and its association with Hibbertia flowers (Dilleniaceae). Giornale Italiano di Entomologia 6: 109-117 [Date published 31/Aug/1992]
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• Macleay, W.J. 1883. Notices of some undescribed species of Coleoptera in the Brisbane Museum. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 8: 409-416
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• McQuillan, P.B. 1985. The identification of root-feeding cockchafer larvae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) found in pastures in Tasmania. Australian Journal of Zoology 33: 509-546
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