Maladera keralensis (Frey, 1972)

Chandra, Kailash, Ahrens, Dirk, Bhunia, Debika, Sreedevi, Kolla & Gupta, Devanshu, 2021, New species and records of Sericini from India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae Melolonthinae), Zootaxa 4951 (3), pp. 492-510 : 504

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4951.3.4

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4668284

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scientific name

Maladera keralensis (Frey, 1972)
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Maladera keralensis (Frey, 1972)

Material examined. 5 males, 2 females: “ India: Karnataka, Uttara Kannada, Sirsi , 790 m, 14°62’ N, 74°84’ E, 5.v. 2019, leg. R. Naveen ” ( NBAIR) ; 1 male: “ India: Karnataka, Uttara Kannada, Sirsi , 790 m, 14°62’ N, 74°84’ E, 7.vii. 2019, leg. R. Naveen ” ( NBAIR) ; 1 male: “ India: Karnataka, Uttara Kannada, Sirsi , 790 m, 14°62’ N, 74°84’ E, 13.vii. 2019, leg. R. Naveen ” ( NBAIR) ; 2 males: “ Karnataka, Shimoga, Thirthahalli , 591 m, 13°69’ N, 75°25’ E, 16.vii.2019, leg. R. Naveen ” ( NBAIR) ; 1 male: “ India: Karnataka, Chikmagalur, Mudigere , 970 m, 13°14’ N, 75°60’ E, 17.iv.2019, leg. R. Naveen ” ( NBAIR) GoogleMaps ; 1 male: “ India: Karnataka, Kodagu, Chettalli , 609 m, 12°33’ N, 75°84’ E, 16.v. 2019, leg. K. Sreedevi ” ( NBAIR) ; 1 male: “ India: Kerala, Wayanad , 140 m, 11°69’ N, 76°13’ E, 27.iv.2019, leg. K. Sreedevi ” ( NBAIR) .

Remark. This is the first record of this species for Uttara Kannada and Shimoga districts of Karnataka. The species is earlier known from neighbouring districts, Chikmagalur and Kodagu of Karnataka and Kerala state ( Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016; Sreedevi et al. 2019).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Melolonthidae

Genus

Maladera

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