Maladera freyi Ahrens & Fabrizi, 2016

Bhunia, Debika, Gupta, Devanshu, Sarkar, Subhankar Kumar & Ahrens, Dirk, 2023, A new species and new records of Sericini chafers from the Lower Gangetic Plains in India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericinae), Zootaxa 5353 (4), pp. 351-371 : 357

Maladera freyi Ahrens & Fabrizi, 2016

( Figs 34–37 , 99 )

Cephaloserica opaca Frey, 1975: 229 .

Maladera opaca: Ahrens 2004: 238 [junior secondary homonym of Maladera opaca (Moser, 1924) ].

Maladera freyi Ahrens & Fabrizi, 2016: 167 [replacement name for Maladera opaca ( Frey, 1975) ].

Material examined. 1 ♂ “ India: West Bengal, Bankura, Belboni , 03.09.1986, leg. P. Mukhopadhyay ” ( NZCI) , 1 ♂ “ India: Bihar, West Champaran, 04.x.2016, leg. R.S. Mridha ” ( NZCI) .

Distribution. India: Meghalaya, Bihar and West Bengal (Bankura), Bhutan and Nepal ( Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016; Chandra et al. 2021; this paper).

Remarks. This is the first record of this species for Bihar.

Figures

FIGURE 99. (A–B). A. Gangetic plains biogeographic zone of India; B. Map of Lower Gangetic plains showing sample localities of the species: M. drescheri, M. freyi, M. iridescens, M. kaimurensis, M. lugubris, M. marginella.

FIGURES 26–37. (26–29). Maladera cardoni (Brenske, 1896) (Purba bardhaman, west Bengal); (30–33). Maladera drescheri (Moser, 1913) (Jalpaiguri, West Bengal); (34–37). Maladera freyi Ahrens & Fabrizi, 2016 (West Champaran, Bihar); (26, 30, 34) Aedeagus in lateral view (left); (27, 31, 35) Aedeagus in dorsal view; (28, 32, 36) Aedeagus in lateral view (right); (29, 33, 37) Habitus, dorsal view. Scale 0.5 mm. Habitus not to scale.