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
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1A39DCF0-FCAC-4927-AFD3-EBF049F00A9B
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4668284
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scientific name	Maladera keralensis (Frey, 1972)
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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).