identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
03C4F00DFFF7B14DFF0A0C94B9C2FCB7.text	03C4F00DFFF7B14DFF0A0C94B9C2FCB7.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Neoserica telangana Jayashree, Sreedevi & Ahrens 2026	<div><p>Neoserica telangana Jayashree, Sreedevi &amp; Ahrens, sp. nov.</p><p>(Fig. 2A–F)</p><p>Type locality. India: Telangana, Vikkarabad, Rampur, 17°24’N; 77°45’E.</p><p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “ INDIA: Telangana, Vikkarabad, Rampur, 17°24’N; 77°45’E, 21.vi.2025, leg. Jayashree. S /KS2029/ICAR-NBAIR/S26” (NBAIR). [The specimen bears a red printed label: “Holotype Neoserica telangana Jayashree, Sreedevi &amp; Ahrens sp. nov., Det. 2026”] . Paratypes: 8 ♂♂ “ INDIA: Telangana, Vikkarabad, Rampur, 17°24’N; 77°45’E, 21.vi.2025, leg. Jayashree. S /ICAR-NBAIR/S27-34” (NBAIR). [Each specimen bears a yellow printed label: “Paratype Neoserica telangana Jayashree, Sreedevi &amp; Ahrens sp. nov., Det. 2026”] .</p><p>Description of the holotype, male. Body length: 6.2 mm, elytral length: 3.5 mm, width: 4.1 mm. Body oblong, reddish brown, dorsal surface shiny, glabrous, finely and densely punctate.</p><p>Head. Labroclypeus distinctly wider than long, trapezoidal, sides convergent, anterior angles convex; anterior margin slightly concave medially, margins weakly reflexed, lateral margins and occular canthus produce an indistinct angle; surface shiny, moderately convex medially, with rough and dense punctures, few yellow setae anteriorly; frontoclypeal suture distinct, bluntly angled medially. Frons with fine and moderately dense punctures, glabrous, bearing two setae besides eyes. Antenna yellow, with ten antennomeres, club with five antennomeres, slightly reflexed, slightly longer than remaining antennomeres combined. Eyes large, ratio diameter/interocular width: 0.56. Mentum elevated and flattened anteriorly; anterior surface of labrum concavely emarginated.</p><p>Pronotum moderately wide, widest at base, lateral margins straight and subparallel in basal half, convex and weakly convergent anteriorly; anterior angles sharp and distinctly produced, posterior angles nearly right-angled and blunt; basal margin without marginal line; anterior margin with a fine marginal line, weakly convex medially; surface glabrous, with fine, deep and evenly dense punctures bearing white microsetae; with sparse, long, yellow setae at anterior and lateral margins. Scutellum short, triangular, with a few fine punctures.</p><p>Elytra elongate, widest at middle, striae distinctly impressed, finely punctate, intervals flat, densely and finely punctate, with sparse, short setae; epipleura ending at convex external apical angle of elytra; apex with fine membraneous rim of short microsetae.</p><p>Ventral surface yellowish brown, thorax and metacoxa with dense punctures; hypomeron and metepisternum with large punctures and numerous small setae, few long setae laterally; mesosternum and metasternum with few robust setae; metacoxa with white, short setae, laterally with a few more robust, brown setae; abdominal sternites finely and moderately densely punctate, each sternite with a transverse row of moderately long setae. Mesosternum between mesocoxae little wider than mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/1.64. Pygidium moderately convex, finely and densely punctate, lateral and apical margins with few medium-size to long setae.</p><p>Legs long and wide; femora shiny, with two longitudinal row of setae, finely and sparsely punctate laterally, medially impunctate. Metafemur shiny, anterior margin acute, without serrated line; posterior ventral margin slightly curved and moderately widened in apical half, neither dorsally nor ventrally serrated but smooth, with a few robust longitudinal setae medially. Metatibia widest at apex, flattened, ratio width/length: 1/3.3, dorsal margin sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal group at one third, apical group at two thirds of metatibial length, glabrous basally; lateral face longitudinally convex, densely punctate, glabrous, smooth along middle in apical half; ventral margin finely serrate, with five robust equidistant setae; medial face smooth and glabrous; apex finely serrate, moderately truncate interiorly near tarsal articulation. Tarsomeres impunctate dorsally with setae at apex; metatarsomeres ventrally glabrous, first metatarsomere longer and wider than following tarsomere. Protibia short, bidentate. All claws symmetrical.</p><p>Aedeagus: Fig. 2A–E. Habitus: Fig. 2F.</p><p>Female unknown.</p><p>Differential diagnosis. The new species differs from the similar Neoserica rajasthanica Ahrens &amp; Fabrizi, 2016 by the slightly longer left paramere, which is strongly curved dorsally at apex (lateral view). The new species differs also by the shorter right paramere, which is abruptly bent laterally behind base, wider and evenly narrowed towards the straight apex. Finally, the new species can be distinguished by the less deeply excavate mesal mesoapical emargination of dorsal phallobase, from N. rajasthanica . From the other two similar species, N. sforziae Ahrens &amp; Fabrizi, 2016 and N. pushkarensis Ahrens &amp; Fabrizi, 2016, the two former species differ by the more asymmetric apex of the dorsal phallobase, which is also in distal half (lateral view) not narrowed as in N. sforziae and N. pushkarensis .</p><p>Etymology. The new species is named after its occurrence in the Telangana state (noun in apposition).</p><p>Distribution. The species is known from the type locality only (Fig. 3).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C4F00DFFF7B14DFF0A0C94B9C2FCB7	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.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Jayashree, Selvaraj;Sreedevi, Kolla;Ahrens, Dirk	Jayashree, Selvaraj, Sreedevi, Kolla, Ahrens, Dirk (2026): New species and distributional records of Sericini from groundnut ecosystem in South India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericinae). Zootaxa 5782 (3): 581-590, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5782.3.10, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5782.3.10
03C4F00DFFF6B14BFF0A0DEEB9C2FF5B.text	03C4F00DFFF6B14BFF0A0DEEB9C2FF5B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Maladera rampurensis Jayashree, Sreedevi & Ahrens 2026	<div><p>Maladera rampurensis Jayashree, Sreedevi &amp; Ahrens, sp. nov.</p><p>(Fig. 2G–K)</p><p>Type locality. India: Telangana, Vikkarabad, Rampur, 17°24’N; 77°45’E.</p><p>Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “ INDIA: Telangana, Vikkarabad, Rampur, 17°24’N; 77°45’E, 21.vi.2025, leg. Jayashree. S (NBAIR)/KS 2030/ICAR-NBAIR/S35” (NBAIR). [The specimen bears a red printed label: “Holotype Maladera rampurensis Jayashree, Sreedevi &amp; Ahrens sp. nov., Det. 2026”] . Paratypes: 4 ♂♂ “ INDIA: Telangana, Vikkarabad, Rampur, 17°24’N; 77°45’E, 21.vi.2025, leg. Jayashree. S (NBAIR)/KS 2030/ ICAR-NBAIR/S36-39” (NBAIR). [Each specimen bears a yellow printed label: “Paratype Maladera rampurensis Jayashree, Sreedevi &amp; Ahrens sp. nov., Det. 2026”] .</p><p>Description of the holotype, male. Body length: 6.2 mm, elytral length: 3.5 mm, width: 4.0 mm. Body short oval, head, prothorax and scutellum light brown, legs dark brown with dark margins, tarsomeres dark brown, elytra yellowish brown, dorsal surface glabrous, finely and densely punctate, with weak iridescent shine.</p><p>Head. Labroclypeus wide, distinctly wider than long, lateral margins strongly convergent and straight, anterior angles moderately convex; margins weakly reflexed, anterior margin distinctly emarginated medially, occular canthus and lateral margin produce an indistinct angle; surface shiny, convex, with slightly elevated, longitudinal carina medially, with deep and dense punctures, few erect setae; prominent frontoclypeal suture, curved; ocular canthus bears a single hair on both sides. Frons convex, with fine and moderate punctures, glabrous. Antenna yellow, with ten antennomeres, club with three antennomeres, little longer than remaining antennomeres combined. Eyes small, ratio diameter/interocular width: 0.58.</p><p>Pronotum convex, widest at middle, lateral margins evenly convex, distinctly converging towards anterior angles, weakly narrowed towards posterior angles; anterior angles acute and distinctly produced, posterior angles blunt; basal marginal line absent; surface deeply and densely punctate, anterior margin sparsely setose, with a fine marginal line, almost straight medially; lateral and posterior margin glabrous; pronotal surface with minute setae in punctures. Scutellum triangular, short, with moderately dense punctures.</p><p>Elytra widest at middle, striae finely impressed, with deep and dense punctures, puntures white fine microsetae, otherwise glabrous; elytral suture darker, epipleura ending at smoothly rounded external elytral apical angle; apex of elytra with a fine membraneous rim.</p><p>Ventral surface dull, light brown, with moderately dense punctures; hypomeron and metepisternum with large punctures and moderately long yellow setae; metasternum sparsely covered with fine, short setae; metacoxa glabrous, with a few setae beside lateral margin; Abdominal sternites finely punctate, with a transverse row of moderately short setae in coarse punctures on each sternite. Mesosternum between mesocoxae slightly wider than mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/1.7. Pygidium convex, finely and densely punctate, glabrous.</p><p>Legs wide, shiny; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, sparsely and finely punctate on side, medially almost impunctate. Anterior margin of metafemur acute, without serrated line; with an anterior and posterior longitudinal, row of robust setae. Metatibia short, flattened, widest at middle, with coarse punctures, glabrous, ratio width/length: 1/3.0, dorsal margin sharply carinated, lateral face longitudinally convex; with two groups of spines, basal group at one third, apical group at two thirds of metatibial length; ventral margin slightly serrated with five long equidistant setae, apex truncated near tarsal articulation. Tarsomeres impunctate dorsally with few setae at apex; metatarsomeres glabrous ventrally, first metatarsomere slightly longer than dorsal tibial spur, shorter than following two tarsomeres combined. Protibia short, bidentate. All claws symmetrical.</p><p>Aedeagus: Fig. 2G–J. Habitus: Fig. 3K.</p><p>Female unknown.</p><p>Differential diagnosis. Maladera rampurensis sp. nov. differs from the other species of the subgenus Cephaloserica Brenske, 1900 by the extremely reduced length of the left paramere in which it resembles to the Himalayan species of the subgenus Omaladera Reitter, 1901 . From the latter group it differs by the elongate, tubular phallobase. Morphologically, it might be the “missing link” between the two related lineages.</p><p>Etymology. The new species is named after the type locality Rampur (adjective in the nominative singular).</p><p>Distribution. The species is known from the type locality only (Fig. 3).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C4F00DFFF6B14BFF0A0DEEB9C2FF5B	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.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Jayashree, Selvaraj;Sreedevi, Kolla;Ahrens, Dirk	Jayashree, Selvaraj, Sreedevi, Kolla, Ahrens, Dirk (2026): New species and distributional records of Sericini from groundnut ecosystem in South India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericinae). Zootaxa 5782 (3): 581-590, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5782.3.10, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5782.3.10
03C4F00DFFF0B14BFF0A0B03B9B5F9F0.text	03C4F00DFFF0B14BFF0A0B03B9B5F9F0.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Maladera bombycina (Karsch 1882)	<div><p>Maladera bombycina (Karsch, 1882)</p><p>Materials examined. 4 ♂♂ “ INDIA: Andhra Pradesh, Tirupati, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=79.36667&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=13.616667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 79.36667/lat 13.616667)">Regional Agricultural Research Station</a>, 13°37’N 79°22’E, 26.v.2025, leg. Jayashree S. ” (NBAIR) ; 4 ♂♂ “ INDIA: Andhra Pradesh, Tirupati, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=79.36667&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=13.616667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 79.36667/lat 13.616667)">Regional Agricultural Research Station</a>, 13°37’N 79°22’E, 14.v.2025, leg. Harathi ” (NBAIR) ; 3 ♂♂ “ INDIA: Andhra Pradesh, Tirupati, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=79.36667&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=13.616667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 79.36667/lat 13.616667)">Regional Agricultural Research Station</a>, 13°37’N 79°22’E, 21-22.v.2025, leg. Harathi ” (NBAIR) .</p><p>Remarks. The species is known from Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, Pondicherry (Ahrens &amp; Fabrizi 2016) and Andhra Pradesh (Sreedevi et al. 2018; Sreedevi &amp; Ahrens 2025).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C4F00DFFF0B14BFF0A0B03B9B5F9F0	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.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Jayashree, Selvaraj;Sreedevi, Kolla;Ahrens, Dirk	Jayashree, Selvaraj, Sreedevi, Kolla, Ahrens, Dirk (2026): New species and distributional records of Sericini from groundnut ecosystem in South India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericinae). Zootaxa 5782 (3): 581-590, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5782.3.10, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5782.3.10
03C4F00DFFF0B14BFF0A08ABB91DF813.text	03C4F00DFFF0B14BFF0A08ABB91DF813.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Maladera breviata (Brenske 1899)	<div><p>Maladera breviata (Brenske, 1899)</p><p>Material examined. 1 ♂ “ INDIA: Andhra Pradesh, Tirupati, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=79.36667&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=13.616667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 79.36667/lat 13.616667)">Regional Agricultural Research Station</a>, 13°37’N 79°22’E, v.2025, leg. Harathi ” (NBAIR) .</p><p>Remarks. The species is known to occur in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Pondicherry (Fabrizi &amp; Ahrens 2014; Ahrens &amp; Fabrizi 2016) and Andhra Pradesh (Sreedevi et al. 2018).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C4F00DFFF0B14BFF0A08ABB91DF813	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.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Jayashree, Selvaraj;Sreedevi, Kolla;Ahrens, Dirk	Jayashree, Selvaraj, Sreedevi, Kolla, Ahrens, Dirk (2026): New species and distributional records of Sericini from groundnut ecosystem in South India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericinae). Zootaxa 5782 (3): 581-590, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5782.3.10, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5782.3.10
03C4F00DFFF3B148FF0A0EF3B864FE5F.text	03C4F00DFFF3B148FF0A0EF3B864FE5F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Maladera brevis (Blanchard 1850)	<div><p>Maladera brevis (Blanchard, 1850)</p><p>Materials examined. 8 ♂♂ “ INDIA: Andhra Pradesh, Sri Sathya Sai, Kadiri, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=77.98333&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=14.083333" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 77.98333/lat 14.083333)">Mittapalli</a>, 14°05’N 77°59’E, 24.v.2025, leg. K. Sreedevi and Jayashree, S.” (NBAIR) ; 1 ♂ “ INDIA: Andhra Pradesh, Sri Sathya Sai, Kadiri, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=78.13333&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=14.1" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 78.13333/lat 14.1)">Agricultural Research Station</a>, 14°06’N 78°08’E, 24.v.2025, leg. Judith and Gowri” (NBAIR) ; 1 ♂ “ INDIA: Andhra Pradesh, Tirupati, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=79.36667&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=13.616667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 79.36667/lat 13.616667)">Regional Agricultural Research Station</a>, 13°37’N 79°22’E, 08.iv.2025, leg. Jayashree, S. and Gowri” (NBAIR) .</p><p>Remarks. The species is known to occur in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Pondicherry (Fabrizi &amp; Ahrens 2014) and Andhra Pradesh (Sreedevi et al. 2018).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C4F00DFFF3B148FF0A0EF3B864FE5F	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.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Jayashree, Selvaraj;Sreedevi, Kolla;Ahrens, Dirk	Jayashree, Selvaraj, Sreedevi, Kolla, Ahrens, Dirk (2026): New species and distributional records of Sericini from groundnut ecosystem in South India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericinae). Zootaxa 5782 (3): 581-590, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5782.3.10, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5782.3.10
03C4F00DFFF3B148FF0A0C7CB817FD69.text	03C4F00DFFF3B148FF0A0C7CB817FD69.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Maladera coxalis (Moser 1915)	<div><p>Maladera coxalis (Moser, 1915)</p><p>Materials examined. 1 ♂ “ INDIA: Andhra Pradesh, Tirupati, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=79.36667&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=13.616667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 79.36667/lat 13.616667)">Regional Agricultural Research Station</a>, 13°37’N 79°22’E, 21-22.v.2025, leg. Harathi ” (NBAIR) .</p><p>Remarks. This is the first state record of this species for Andhra Pradesh. So far this species was known from Karnataka (Sreedevi &amp; Ahrens 2025).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C4F00DFFF3B148FF0A0C7CB817FD69	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.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Jayashree, Selvaraj;Sreedevi, Kolla;Ahrens, Dirk	Jayashree, Selvaraj, Sreedevi, Kolla, Ahrens, Dirk (2026): New species and distributional records of Sericini from groundnut ecosystem in South India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericinae). Zootaxa 5782 (3): 581-590, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5782.3.10, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5782.3.10
03C4F00DFFF3B148FF0A0D49B82BFBAF.text	03C4F00DFFF3B148FF0A0D49B82BFBAF.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Maladera lugubris (Brenske 1896)	<div><p>Maladera lugubris (Brenske, 1896)</p><p>Material examined. 1 ♂ “ INDIA: <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=77.75&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=17.4" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 77.75/lat 17.4)">Telangana</a>, Vikarabad, Rampur, 17°24’N; 77°45’E, 21.vi.2025, leg. Jayashree, S. ” (NBAIR) .</p><p>Remarks. This is the first state record of this species for Telangana. So far this species was known from New Delhi (Sreedevi et al. 2018), West Bengal, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu (Ahrens &amp; Fabrizi 2016; Sreedevi &amp; Ahrens 2025).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C4F00DFFF3B148FF0A0D49B82BFBAF	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.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Jayashree, Selvaraj;Sreedevi, Kolla;Ahrens, Dirk	Jayashree, Selvaraj, Sreedevi, Kolla, Ahrens, Dirk (2026): New species and distributional records of Sericini from groundnut ecosystem in South India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericinae). Zootaxa 5782 (3): 581-590, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5782.3.10, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5782.3.10
03C4F00DFFF3B148FF0A0A15B9FAFA22.text	03C4F00DFFF3B148FF0A0A15B9FAFA22.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Maladera mutabilis (Fabricius 1781)	<div><p>Maladera mutabilis (Fabricius, 1781)</p><p>Material examined. 2 ♂♂ “ INDIA: Telangana, Vikarabad, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=77.75&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=17.4" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 77.75/lat 17.4)">Rampur</a>, 17°24’N; 77°45’E, 21.vi.2025, leg. Jayashree, S. ” (NBAIR) ; 1 ♂ “ INDIA: Andhra Pradesh, Tirupati, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=79.36667&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=13.616667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 79.36667/lat 13.616667)">Regional Agricultural Research Station</a>, 13°37’N 79°22’E, 08.iv.2025, leg. Jayashree, S. ” (NBAIR) ; 1 ♂ “ INDIA: Andhra Pradesh, Tirupati, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=79.36667&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=13.616667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 79.36667/lat 13.616667)">Regional Agricultural Research Station</a>, 13°37’N 79°22’E, 27.v.2025, leg. Jayashree, S. ” (NBAIR) ; 1 ♂ “ INDIA: Andhra Pradesh, Sri Sathya Sai, Kadiri, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=77.98333&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=14.083333" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 77.98333/lat 14.083333)">Mittapalli</a>, 14°05’N 77°59’E, 24.v.2025, leg. Sreedevi and Jayashree, S. ” (NBAIR) .</p><p>Remarks. This is the first state record of this species for Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. So far the species known from Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala (Ahrens &amp; Fabrizi 2016).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C4F00DFFF3B148FF0A0A15B9FAFA22	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.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Jayashree, Selvaraj;Sreedevi, Kolla;Ahrens, Dirk	Jayashree, Selvaraj, Sreedevi, Kolla, Ahrens, Dirk (2026): New species and distributional records of Sericini from groundnut ecosystem in South India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericinae). Zootaxa 5782 (3): 581-590, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5782.3.10, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5782.3.10
03C4F00DFFF3B148FF0A0B99BE13F942.text	03C4F00DFFF3B148FF0A0B99BE13F942.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Maladera proxima (Burmeister 1855)	<div><p>Maladera proxima (Burmeister, 1855)</p><p>Material examined. 1 ♂ “ INDIA: <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=77.75&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=17.4" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 77.75/lat 17.4)">Telangana</a>, Vikarabad, Rampur, 17°24’N; 77°45’E, 21.vi.2025, leg. Jayashree, S ” (NBAIR) .</p><p>Remarks. This is the first state record of this species for Telangana. So far this species was known from West Bengal (Bhunia et al. 2023a), Tamil Nadu and Karnataka (Ahrens &amp; Fabrizi 2016).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C4F00DFFF3B148FF0A0B99BE13F942	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.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Jayashree, Selvaraj;Sreedevi, Kolla;Ahrens, Dirk	Jayashree, Selvaraj, Sreedevi, Kolla, Ahrens, Dirk (2026): New species and distributional records of Sericini from groundnut ecosystem in South India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericinae). Zootaxa 5782 (3): 581-590, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5782.3.10, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5782.3.10
03C4F00DFFF3B148FF0A0979BF49F862.text	03C4F00DFFF3B148FF0A0979BF49F862.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Maladera pubescens (Arrow 1916)	<div><p>Maladera pubescens (Arrow, 1916)</p><p>Material examined. 6 ♂♂ “ INDIA: <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=77.75&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=17.4" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 77.75/lat 17.4)">Telangana</a>, Vikarabad, Rampur, 17°24’N; 77°45’E, 21.vi.2025, leg. Jayashree, S. ” (NBAIR) .</p><p>Remarks. This is the first state record of this species for Telangana. So far this species was known from Madhya Pradesh (Chandra et al. 2021), Tamil Nadu (Ahrens &amp; Fabrizi 2016) and Karnataka (Fabrizi &amp; Ahrens 2014).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C4F00DFFF3B148FF0A0979BF49F862	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.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Jayashree, Selvaraj;Sreedevi, Kolla;Ahrens, Dirk	Jayashree, Selvaraj, Sreedevi, Kolla, Ahrens, Dirk (2026): New species and distributional records of Sericini from groundnut ecosystem in South India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericinae). Zootaxa 5782 (3): 581-590, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5782.3.10, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5782.3.10
03C4F00DFFF2B149FF0A0EF3B85DFE5F.text	03C4F00DFFF2B149FF0A0EF3B85DFE5F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Maladera rufocuprea (Blanchard 1850)	<div><p>Maladera rufocuprea (Blanchard, 1850)</p><p>Materials examined. 1 ♂ “ INDIA: Telangana, Vikarabad, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=77.75&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=17.4" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 77.75/lat 17.4)">Rampur</a>, 17°24’N; 77°45’E, 22.vi.2025, leg. Jayashree, S. ” (NBAIR) ; 1 ♂ “ INDIA: Andhra Pradesh, Chittoor, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=79.36667&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=13.616667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 79.36667/lat 13.616667)">Regional Agricultural Research Station</a>, 13°37’N 79°22’E, 21-22. v.2025, leg. Harathi ” (NBAIR) ; 1 ♂ “ INDIA: Andhra Pradesh, Tirupati, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=79.36667&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=13.616667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 79.36667/lat 13.616667)">Regional Agricultural Research Station</a>, 13°37’N 79°22’E, 14.v.2025, leg. Harathi, P. N. ” (NBAIR) .</p><p>Remarks. This is the first state record of this species for Telangana. So far this species was known from Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Uttarakhand (Ahrens &amp; Fabrizi 2016).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C4F00DFFF2B149FF0A0EF3B85DFE5F	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.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Jayashree, Selvaraj;Sreedevi, Kolla;Ahrens, Dirk	Jayashree, Selvaraj, Sreedevi, Kolla, Ahrens, Dirk (2026): New species and distributional records of Sericini from groundnut ecosystem in South India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericinae). Zootaxa 5782 (3): 581-590, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5782.3.10, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5782.3.10
03C4F00DFFF2B149FF0A0C47BE5EFC98.text	03C4F00DFFF2B149FF0A0C47BE5EFC98.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Maladera setosa Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016	<div><p>Maladera setosa Ahrens &amp; Fabrizi, 2016</p><p>Material examined. 48 ♂♂, 26 ♀♀, “ INDIA: <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=77.75&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=17.4" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 77.75/lat 17.4)">Telangana</a>, Vikkarabad, Rampur, 17°24’N; 77°45’E, 21.vi.2025, leg. Jayashree, S. ” (NBAIR) .</p><p>Remarks. This is the first state record of this species for Telangana. So far this species was known from Uttarakhand, Odisha (Ahrens 2004), Pondicherry (Ahrens &amp; Fabrizi 2016), Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh (Chandra et al. 2021), Bihar (Bhunia et al. 2023a) and Andhra Pradesh (Sreedevi &amp; Ahrens 2025).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C4F00DFFF2B149FF0A0C47BE5EFC98	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.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Jayashree, Selvaraj;Sreedevi, Kolla;Ahrens, Dirk	Jayashree, Selvaraj, Sreedevi, Kolla, Ahrens, Dirk (2026): New species and distributional records of Sericini from groundnut ecosystem in South India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericinae). Zootaxa 5782 (3): 581-590, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5782.3.10, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5782.3.10
03C4F00DFFF2B149FF0A0D03B86FFBBB.text	03C4F00DFFF2B149FF0A0D03B86FFBBB.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Maladera tiefermanni Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016	<div><p>Maladera tiefermanni Ahrens &amp; Fabrizi, 2016</p><p>Material examined. 2 ♂♂ “ INDIA: <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=77.75&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=17.4" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 77.75/lat 17.4)">Telangana</a>, Vikkarabad, Rampur, 17°24’N; 77°45’E, 21.vi.2025, leg. Jayashree, S. ” (NBAIR) .</p><p>Remarks. This is the first state record of this species for Telangana. So far this species was known from Maharashtra (Ahrens &amp; Fabrizi 2016).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C4F00DFFF2B149FF0A0D03B86FFBBB	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.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Jayashree, Selvaraj;Sreedevi, Kolla;Ahrens, Dirk	Jayashree, Selvaraj, Sreedevi, Kolla, Ahrens, Dirk (2026): New species and distributional records of Sericini from groundnut ecosystem in South India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericinae). Zootaxa 5782 (3): 581-590, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5782.3.10, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5782.3.10
03C4F00DFFF2B149FF0A0AE3BAC8FA4F.text	03C4F00DFFF2B149FF0A0AE3BAC8FA4F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Neoserica quadrilamellata (Brenske 1896)	<div><p>Neoserica quadrilamellata (Brenske, 1896)</p><p>Material examined. 6 ♂♂ “ INDIA: Telangana, Vikarabad, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=77.75&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=17.4" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 77.75/lat 17.4)">Rampur</a>, 17°24’N; 77°45’E, 21.vi.2025, leg. Jayashree, S. ” (NBAIR) ; 39 ♂♂ “ INDIA: Telangana, Vikarabad, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=77.75&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=17.4" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 77.75/lat 17.4)">Rampur</a>, 17°24’N; 77°45’E, 22.vi.2025, leg. Jayashree, S. ” (NBAIR) ; 4 ♂♂ “ INDIA: Andhra Pradesh, Sri Sathya Sai, Kadiri, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=78.13333&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=14.1" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 78.13333/lat 14.1)">Agricultural Research Station</a>, 14°06’N 78°08’E, 24.v.2025, leg. Judith and Gowri” (NBAIR) .</p><p>Remarks. This is the first state record of this species for Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. So far this species was known from Bihar (Bhunia et al. 2023a), Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Odisha and New Delhi (Ahrens &amp; Fabrizi 2016).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C4F00DFFF2B149FF0A0AE3BAC8FA4F	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.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Jayashree, Selvaraj;Sreedevi, Kolla;Ahrens, Dirk	Jayashree, Selvaraj, Sreedevi, Kolla, Ahrens, Dirk (2026): New species and distributional records of Sericini from groundnut ecosystem in South India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericinae). Zootaxa 5782 (3): 581-590, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5782.3.10, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5782.3.10
