Melolontha phupanensis, Keith, 2008

Gupta, Devanshu, Keith, Denis, Bhunia, Debika, Das, Priyanka, Ghosh, Joyjit & Chandra, Kailash, 2023, Review of Melolontha Fabricius, 1775 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) from India with the description of two new species, Zootaxa 5263 (2), pp. 191-216 : 197

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5263.2.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B07051F2-A15B-49EC-9A2F-91B9420FEA4A

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7814562

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scientific name

Melolontha phupanensis
status

 

phupanensis group

Li et al. (2010) proposed the phupanensis group based on a single species, Melolontha phupanensis Keith, 2008 , described from Laos and Vietnam. We place both newly described species, M. arunachalensis Gupta, Keith, Bhunia, Das, Ghosh & Chandra , new species and M. lachungensis Gupta, Keith, Bhunia, Das, Ghosh & Chandra , new species, in this group, based on the characters as proposed by Li et al. (2010) (refer to the key to species groups). The parameres in this group are symmetric, elongated, subequal in length with phallobase and outer margins parallel at the apical three-fourth part.

Keith, D. (2008) Nouveaux Melolonthini du Sud-Est asiatique (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea). Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie, 24 (4), 335 - 349.

Li, C. - L., Yang, P. - S. & Wang, C. - C. (2010) Revision of the Melolontha guttigera group with a key and an annotated checklist of the East and South-East Asian Melolontha groups. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 103 (3), 341 - 359. https: // doi. org / 10.1603 / AN 09088

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Melolonthidae

SubFamily

Melolonthinae

Genus

Melolontha