Maladera iridescens ( Blanchard, 1850 )

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 : 358

Maladera iridescens ( Blanchard, 1850)

( Figs 38–41 , 99 )

Omaloplia iridescens Blanchard, 1850: 77 .

Serica globus Burmeister, 1855: 165 ; synonymized by Ahrens 2004b: 273.

Autoserica forsteri Frey, 1965 b: 89 ; synonymized by Ahrens 2004b: 273.

Maladera iridescens: Ahrens 2004b: 273, 2006a: 415 ; Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016: 235.

Material examined. 1 ♂ “ India: West Bengal, Mursidabad, Betberia , 13.x.1983, leg. A.K. Varshney ” ( NZCI) , 1 ♂ “ India: West Bengal, Bankura, Chaltha , 24.vii.2022, leg. Suresh Chand ” ( NZCI) .

Distribution. India: Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Odisha, Uttarakhand, West Bengal (Mursidabad); Nepal and Pakistan ( Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016; Chandra et al. 2021; this paper).

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

Figures

FIGURE 99. (A–B). A. Gangetic plains biogeographic zone of India; B. Map of Lower Gangetic plains showing sample localities of the species: M. drescheri, M. freyi, M. iridescens, M. kaimurensis, M. lugubris, M. marginella.

FIGURES 38–49. (38–41). Maladera iridescens (Blanchard, 1850) (Bankura, West Bengal); (42–45). Maladera kaimurensis Chandra, Ahrens, Bhunia, Sreedevi & Gupta, 2021 (Kaimur, Bihar); (46–49). Maladera lugubris (Brenske, 1896) (Bankura, West Bengal); (38, 42, 46) Aedeagus in lateral view (left); (39, 43, 47) Aedeagus in dorsal view; (40, 44, 48) Aedeagus in lateral view (right); (41, 45, 49) Habitus, dorsal view. Scale 0.5 mm. Habitus not to scale.