Serbana borneensis

Serbana borneensis
Serbana borneensis in Malaysia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Superfamily: Pentatomoidea
Family: Pentatomidae
Subfamily: Serbaninae
Genus: Serbana
Species: S. borneensis
Binomial name
Serbana borneensis
Distant, 1906

The Serbaninae are a highly modified subfamily of Pentatomidae, containing only a single known species, Serbana borneensis. It is known from very few specimens, from Malaysia and Borneo, and was originally described in the family Phloeidae, a group known only from South America, then later reclassified as a pentatomid.[1]

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