Maladera pseudohongkongica Ahrens & Fabrizi, 2016

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 : 505

Maladera pseudohongkongica Ahrens & Fabrizi, 2016

Material examined. 2 males: “ India: Tripura, North Tripura, 29 m, 23°35’N, 91°52’E, 16.v.2010, leg. B. K. Agrawala ” ( NBAIR); 3 males: “ India: Meghalaya, Umiam, Barapani, 996 m, 25°68’N, 91°93’E, 21.vi.2019, leg. Niranjan ” ( NBAIR); 1 male: “ India: Nagaland, Medziphema 360 m, 25°46’N, 93°53’E, 7.v.2016, leg. K. Sreedevi ” ( NBAIR); 1 male: “ India: Assam, Teok 116 m, 26°83’N, 94°42’E, 17.v.2019, leg. K. Sreedevi and Badal Bhattacharya ” ( NBAIR) .

Remark. This is a new record to Tripura. The species is known from Meghalaya and surrounding north eastern region, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh ( Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016).