Maladera proxima ( Burmeister, 1855 )

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 : 359

Maladera proxima ( Burmeister, 1855)

( Figs 54–57 , 100 )

Serica proxima Burmeister, 1855: 165 .

Autoserica proxima: Frey 1972: 210 .

Maladera proxima: Krajcik 2012: 155

Material examined. 1 ♂ “ India: West Bengal, Darjeeling, Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary, Gulma Beat Office , 27.iii.2018, leg. A. Ramesh Kumar ” ( NZCI) .

Distribution. India: Maharahstra, South India and West Bengal (Darjeeling) ( Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016; this paper).

Remarks. This is the first state record of this species for West Bengal.

Figures

FIGURE 100. (A–B). A. Gangetic plains biogeographic zone of India; B. Map of Lower Gangetic plains showing sample localities of the species: Maladera proxima, M. reyaensis, M. rufocuprea, M. schenklingi, M.setosa, M. siniaevi.

FIGURES 50–61. (50–53). Maladera marginella (Hope, 1831) (Tarekaswar, West Bengal); (54–57). Maladera proxima (Burmeister, 1855) (Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary, West Bengal); (58–61). Maladera reyaensis Bhunia, Gupta, Chandra & Ahrens, 2021 (West Champaran, Bihar); (50, 54, 58) Aedeagus in lateral view (left); (51, 55, 59) Aedeagus in dorsal view; (52, 56, 60) Aedeagus in lateral view (right); (53, 57, 61) Habitus, dorsal view. Scale 0.5 mm. Habitus not to scale.