identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
03F16468FFA180786BB7FEBBF52EFA86.text	03F16468FFA180786BB7FEBBF52EFA86.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Holotrochia freyi Mittal and Pajni 1977	<div><p>Holotrochia freyi Mittal and Pajni 1977 from</p><p>the Phagwara region of Kapurthala district, Punjab. It also confirms it to be the first record of this species from Punjab. The species H. freyi was identified and confirmed on the basis of external morphological and genitalia characters (Fig. 2a, b).</p><p>The genus Holotrichia is a group of complex species that are difficult to identify due to the continuous shifting of their positions in different domains. The genitalia characters, viz., a narrowed phallobase and strong posteriorly curved parameres with long, slightly clefted (before the apex) pointed plates, confirm it to be H. freyi . The endophellus is elongate, closely set, with a short dicluster of spines at the apex. The collected four specimens (2♂, 2♀) of Holotrichia beetles also revealed the presence of H. freyi, as evident by the strongly curved posteriorly parameres, dorsal plate, slightly clefted apex, and spiculam gastrale with Y-shaped sclerites and a median fleshy structure (Fig. 2b). Other than this, the external morphological characters like size (up to 19 mm), body (greyish white), dark legs, rounded clypeus, 10 segmented antennae, rounded lateral margins, tridentate foretibia, elytral structure, and most important genitalia characters determined the species as H. freyi . The white grub species H. freyi was first briefly described and accordingly reported by Mittal &amp; Pajni in 1977 from the Kurukshetra district of Haryana. To date, its distribution has been limited to Haryana. The occurrence of H. freyi in the Phagwara region of Kapurthala district of Punjab is the first report and thus documents a new distributional record.</p><p>Regarding Brahmina comata Blanchard (1850), based on morphological studies, it was confirmed as B. comata . Its morphological characteristics like size (up to 12 mm), black body colour except for legs and antennae, which are reddish, sparsely hairy pronotum, densely hairy chest, tridentate foretibia, and genital shape confirm it to be B. comata (Fig. 3a). Its genitalia characters like strong phallobase, parameres almost ninety degrees to phallobase, and elongated symmetrical parameres with emerging structure from the middle containing serration at the tip confirm it to be B. comata (Fig. 3b). At present, its distribution is limited to West Bengal and North localities, as mentioned by Sabatinelli (1992) and Kumar et al., (2022). Recently, its collection form near Vaisho Devi Temple Reasi district confirmed it as the first documentation from Jammu and Kashmir. The first time B. comata was reported by Blanchard in 1850 and mentioned North locality as India. Further, it was mentioned by Barlow, 1899, in Indian museum notes, and Sabatinelli, 1992, in his monograph, as in the North locality.In the last two decades, it was reported from West Bengal and Himachal Pradesh (Sabatinelli, 1992; Pathania et al., 2015; Kumar et al., 2022). Now the occurrence of B. comata in the Reasi region of Jammu and Kashmir is the first report and thus documents the new distribution record.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F16468FFA180786BB7FEBBF52EFA86	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Kumar, Mayank;Pandey, Ajay Kumar	Kumar, Mayank, Pandey, Ajay Kumar (2025): New record of white grub species from Punjab and Jammu Kashmir (India). Records of the Zoological Survey of India 125 (1): 41-45, DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v125/i1/2025/172794, URL: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v125/i1/2025/172794
