Maladera kaimurensis Chandra, Ahrens, Bhunia, Sreedevi & Gupta, 2021

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

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5353.4.3

publication LSID

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scientific name

Maladera kaimurensis Chandra, Ahrens, Bhunia, Sreedevi & Gupta, 2021
status

 

Maladera kaimurensis Chandra, Ahrens, Bhunia, Sreedevi & Gupta, 2021 View in CoL

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Maladera kaimurensis Chandra, Ahrens, Bhunia, Sreedevi & Gupta, 2021: 493 View in CoL .

Material examined. 1 ♁ “ India: Bihar, Kaimur, Kudra , 22.xii.2021, leg. Devanshu Gupta & Party” ( NZCI) .

Distribution. Until now, the species was only reported from the type locality (Uttar Pradesh).

Remarks. This is the first record of this species for Bihar.

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

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Maladera