Maladera sprecherae Ahrens, 2004

Bhunia, Debika, Gupta, Devanshu, Sarkar, Subhankar Kumar & Ahrens, Dirk, 2023, A new species and new records of Sericini chafers from the Lower Gangetic Plains in India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericinae), Zootaxa 5353 (4), pp. 351-371 : 362

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Maladera sprecherae Ahrens, 2004 View in CoL

( Figs 78–81 View FIGURES 74–85 , 101 View FIGURE 101 )

Maladera sprecherae Ahrens, 2004b: 214 View in CoL ; Ahrens 2006d: 15; Ahrens & Fabrizi 2009b: 273, 2011: 162, 2016: 262.

Material examined. 1 ♂ India: “ West Bengal, Jalpaiguri, Gajoldoba 29.x.22, leg. Debika Bhunia ” ( NZCI) .

Distribution. India: Arunachal Pradesh and West Bengal (Jalpaiguri); Bhutan (Ahrens & Fabrizi 2009; Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016; Chandra et al. 2021; this paper).

Remark. This is the first state record of this species for West Bengal, previously recorded from Arunachal Pradesh and Bhutan.

References

Ahrens, D. (2004 b) Monographie der Sericini des Himalaya (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Dissertation. de - Verlag im Internet GmbH, Berlin, 534 pp.

Ahrens, D. (2006 d) Cladistic analysis of Maladera (Omaladera): implications on taxonomy, evolution and biogeography of the Himalayan species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericini). Organisms, Diversity and Evolution, 6, 1 - 16. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ode. 2005.01.002

Ahrens, D. & Fabrizi, S. (2009 b) New species of Sericini from the Eastern Himalaya and Tibet (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). In: Hartmann, M. & Weipert, M. (Eds.), Biodiversitat und Naturausstattung im Himalaya III. Verein der Freunde und Forderer des Naturkundemuseums Erfurt e. V., Erfurt, pp. 249 - 284.

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

Chandra, K., Ahrens, D., Bhunia, D., Sreedevi, K. & Gupta, D. (2021) New species and records of Sericini from India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). Zootaxa, 4951 (3), 492 - 510. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4951.3.4

Figures

FIGURE 101. (A–B). A. Gangetic plains biogeographic zone of India; B. Map of Lower Gangetic plains showing sample localities of the species: Maladera sprecherae, M. submucronata, Microsericaria quadripunctata, Neoserica quadrilamellata, Oxyserica darjeelingia.

FIGURES 74–85. (74–77). Maladera siniaevi Ahrens, 2004 (Kaimur, Bihar); (78–81). Maladera sprecherae Ahrens, 2004 (Jalpaiguri, West Bengal); (82–85). Maladera submucronata Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016 (Kaimur, Bihar); (74, 78, 82). Aedeagus in lateral view (left); (75, 79, 83) Aedeagus in dorsal view; (76, 80, 84) Aedeagus in lateral view (right); (77, 81, 85) Habitus, dorsal view. Scale 0.5 mm. Habitus not to scale.