Maladera crenolatipes, Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu, 2021

Fabrizi, Silvia, Liu, Wan-Gang, Bai, Ming, Yang, Xing-Ke & Ahrens, Dirk, 2021, A monograph of the genus Maladera Mulsant & Rey, 1871 of China (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), Zootaxa 4922 (1), pp. 1-400 : 284

Maladera crenolatipes group

Key to species of the Maladera crenolatipes group occurring in China (³³):

1 Anterior frons shiny, without tomentum. Antennal club distinctly longer than remaining antennomeres combined.......... 2

1’ Frons completely dull. Antennal club as long as remaining antennomeres combined................................. 3

2 Parameres longer, width even throughout length.................. Maladera sanqingshanica Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu , sp. n.

2’ Parameres shorter, left paramere widened at middle................. Maladera crenolatipes Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu , sp. n.

3 At least one of the parameres with a basal lobe.............................................................. 4

3’ Parameres without basal lobes...................................... Maladera fuanensis Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu , sp. n.

4 Left paramere with large basal lobe. Right paramere without basal lobe.......................................... 5

4’ Right paramere with large basal lobe. Left paramere without basal lobe..................................................................................................... Maladera crenatotibialis Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu , sp. n.

5 Parameres shorter, right paramere narrower at base, distal lobe of left paramere as long as the basal lobe, and only moderately curved..................................................... Maladera lianxianensis Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu , sp. n.

5’ Parameres longer, right paramere wider at base, distal lobe of left paramere longer than the basal lobe, and more strongly reflexed....................................................... Maladera xuezhongi Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu , sp. n.