Bolboceras perpunctatum Krikken, 2013

Gupta, Devanshu, Chandra, Kailash, Ghosh, Joyjit & Das, Priyanka, 2020, A new species and new records of the genus Bolboceras Kirby, 1819 (Coleoptera Scarabaeoidea: Geotrupidae: Bolboceratinae) from India, Zootaxa 4786 (2), pp. 277-282 : 280-281

Bolboceras perpunctatum Krikken, 2013

( Figs. 8, 9 )

Bolboceras perpunctatum Krikken, 2013a: 54 , figs., 4, 25–26, 39, 40.

Material examined. India: Chhattisgarh, Raipur, Barnawapara Wildlife Sanctuary , 01.vii.2011, collected K. Chandra, 1 male, 2 females ( NZSI) ; Madhya Pradesh, Jabalpur, Bargi Rest House , 29.vi.1955, collected M.P. Agarwal, 1 female ( NZSI) ; Indore, Ralamandal Wildlife Sanctuary , 20.vi.2013, collected S. Sambath, 1 male ( NZSI) .

Distribution ( Fig. 10 ). India: Chhattisgarh (Raipur), Madhya Pradesh (Jabalpur, Indore), and Sikkim ( Krikken,

2013a, this paper). Aedeagus as in Fig. 9 . Remarks. Bolboceras perpunctatum was described from the Himalayas, Tumlong, Sikkim (Krikken, 2013).

This species is recorded for the first time from the Central Highlands of Deccan Peninsula.

Figures

FIGURES 8–10. Bolboceras perpunctatum Krikken, 2013 (specimen from Chhattisgarh, Raipur, Barnawapara Wildlife Sanctuary). 8, habitus, dorsal view; 9, parameres, dorsal (frontal) view; 10, map of India showing known distribution in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.