Maladera Mulsant & Rey, 1871

Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), Megataxa 12 (1), pp. 104-175 : 144

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Maladera Mulsant & Rey, 1871 View in CoL

[680 species and 9 additional subspecies].

Type species Scarabaeus holosericeus Scopoli, 1772 View in CoL , by monotypy.

Maladera (Hemiserica) Brenske, 1894a View in CoL , as Hemiserica .

Type species Hemiserica nasuta Brenske, 1894 View in CoL , by monotypy.

Status revised to Maladera (Hemiserica) View in CoL by Ahrens & Fabrizi (2016).

Rhynchosymmela Frey, 1974 View in CoL .

Type species Rhynchosymmela pallida Frey, 1974 View in CoL (= Maladera (Hemiserica) nasuta (Brenske, 1894)) View in CoL , by monotypy.

Synonymy by Ahrens (2004b).

Maladera (Aserica) Lewis, 1895 View in CoL , as Aserica .

Type species Autoserica secreta Brenske, 1897 View in CoL , by subsequent designation of Arrow (1927).

Status revised to Maladera (Aserica) View in CoL by Reitter (1896).

Maladera (Amaladera) Reitter, 1896 View in CoL , as Amaladera .

Type species Serica euphorbiae Burmeister, 1855 View in CoL , by original designation.

Status revised to Maladera (Amaladera) View in CoL by Ahrens (2006a).

Maladera (Cycloserica) Reitter, 1896 View in CoL .

Type species Cycloserica excisiceps Reitter, 1896 View in CoL , by monotypy. Status revised to Maladera (Cycloserica) View in CoL by Nikolajev (1974).

Leucoserica Reitter, 1896 View in CoL .

Type species Serica arenicola Solsky, 1876 View in CoL , by original designation.

Synonymy by Reitter (1916).

Brachyserica Brenske, 1898c View in CoL .

Type species Serica arenicola Solsky, 1876 View in CoL , by subsequent designation of Ahrens (2006a).

Objective synonym of Leucoserica Reitter. View in CoL

Maladera (Omaladera) Reitter, 1901 View in CoL , as Amaladera (Omalodera) View in CoL .

Type species Amaladera (Omalodera) diffinis Reitter, 1896 View in CoL (= Maladera (Omaladera) orientalis ( Motschulsky, 1857)) View in CoL , by subsequent designation of Ahrens (2004b).

Status revised to Maladera (Omaladera) View in CoL by Ahrens (2006a).

Cephaloserica Brenske 1900b View in CoL .

Type species Serica carinirostris Brenske, 1896 View in CoL , by subsequent designation of Brenske (1902b).

Synonymy by Fabrizi et al. (2021).

Coronoserica Brenske, 1900b View in CoL .

Type species Coronoserica beata Brenske, 1902 View in CoL , by subsequent monotypy.

Synonymy with Cephaloserica View in CoL by Ahrens & Fabrizi (2016).

Maladera (Eusericula) Reitter, 1902 View in CoL , as Euserica (Eusericula) View in CoL .

Type species Serica modesta Fairmaire, 1881 View in CoL , by monotypy.

Status revised to Maladera (Eusericula) View in CoL by Ahrens (2006a).

Maladera (Macroserica) Medvedev, 1952 View in CoL .

Type species Omaloplia punctatissima Faldermann, 1836 View in CoL , by original designation.

Maladera (Eumaladera) Nomura, 1967 View in CoL .

Type species Maladera (Eumaladera) nitididorsis Nomura, 1967 View in CoL , by original designation.

Ahrens, D. (2004 b) Revisional notes on Sericini: the taxonomic status of the Neotropical genus Rhynchosymmela Frey, 1974. Beitrage zur Entomologie, 54, 31-35. https://doi.org/10.21248/contrib.entomol.54.1.31-35

Ahrens, D. (2006 a) Sericinae. In: Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 3. Scarabaeoidea - Scirtoidea - Dascilloidea - Buprestoidea - Byrrhoidea. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark, pp. 34, 229-248.

Ahrens, D. & Fabrizi, S. (2016) A monograph of Sericini of India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Bonn Zoological Bulletin, 65, 1-355.

Arrow, G. J. (1927) A note on the coleopterous genus Aserica (Melolonthinae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 29, 69-70.

Brenske, E. (1894 a) Die Melolonthiden der palaearktischen und orientalischen Region im Koniglichen naturhistorischen Museum zu Brussel. Beschreibung neuer Arten und Bemerkungen zu bekannten. Memoires de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, 2, 3-87.

Brenske, E. (1897) Neue Gattungen und Arten der Melolonthiden aus Afrika und Asien. Stettiner entomologische Zeitung, 58, 96-120.

Brenske, E. (1898 c) Die Serica - Arten der Erde. Monographisch bearbeitet. Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift, 42, 345-438. https://doi.org/10.1002/mmnd.18970420310

Brenske, E. (1900 b) Die Serica - Arten der Erde. Monographisch bearbeitet. Beschreibung der Gattungen und Arten. (Fortsetzung.). Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift, 45, 39-96.

Brenske, E. (1902 b) Die Serica - Arten der Erde. Monographisch bearbeitet. Beschreibung der Gattungen und Arten. (Schluss.). Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift, 47, 1-82.

Burmeister, H. C. C. (1855) Handbuch der Entomologie. Coleoptera Lamellicornia, Phyllophaga, Chaenochela. Volume 4. Part 2. T. C. F. Enslin, Berlin, Germany, x + 569 pp.

Fabrizi, S., Liu, W-G., Bai, M., Yang, X-K. & Ahrens, D. (2021) A monograph of the genus Maladera Mulsant & Rey, 1871 of China (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini). Zootaxa, 4922, 1-400. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4922.1.1

Lewis, G. (1895) On the lamellicorn Coleoptera of Japan, and notice on others. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 6, 16, 374-408. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939508680291

Medvedev, S. I. (1952) Fauna USSR: Coleoptera: Lamellicornia (Scarabaeidae), subfam. Melolonthinae. Tome 10. Part 2 [in Russian]. Akademii Nauk, SSSR, Moskva [Moscow], USSR, 276 pp.

Motschulsky, V. (1857) Insectes du Japon. Etudes Entomologiques, 6, 25-41.

Nikolajev, G. V. (1974) Fauna, sistematika o biologiya nasekomyx kazakxstana [in Russian]. Trudy Instituta Zoologii Akademia Nauk Kazakhskoi SSR, 35, 79-90.

Nomura, S. (1967) Some new and remarkable species of the Coleoptera from Japan and its adjacent regions. II. Entomological Review of Japan, 19, 52-62.

Reitter, E. (1896) Uebersicht der mir bekannten palaearktischen, mit der Coleopteren-Gattung Serica verwandten Gattungen und Arten. Wiener entomologische Zeitung, 15, 180-188.

Reitter, E. (1902) Bestimmungs-Tabelle der Melolonthidae aus der europaischen Fauna und den angrenzenden Landern, enthaltend die Gruppen der Pachydemini, Sericini und Melolonthini. Verhandlungen und Naturforschenden Vereines in Brunn, 40, 93-303.

Reitter, E. (1916) Strittige Gattungen in Brenskes Serica - Arten der Erde . Wiener entomologische Zeitung, 35, 40-43. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.9979