Maladera iridescens (Blanchard, 1850)

Chandra, Kailash, Ahrens, Dirk, Bhunia, Debika, Sreedevi, Kolla & Gupta, Devanshu, 2021, New species and records of Sericini from India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae Melolonthinae), Zootaxa 4951 (3), pp. 492-510 : 503

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4951.3.4
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1A39DCF0-FCAC-4927-AFD3-EBF049F00A9B
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4668278
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treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Maladera iridescens (Blanchard, 1850)
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Material examined. 1 male: “ India: Odisha, Raikia , 20.058611N, 84.240555E, 30.vi.1974, leg. A.K Mandal ” ( NZSI) GoogleMaps ; 1 male: “ India: Karnataka, Bangalore Urban, Anekal , 915m, 12°42’ N, 77°42’ E, ix.2014, leg. Mohan ” ( NBAIR) GoogleMaps .

Remark. This is the first state record of this species for Odisha (Orissa). The species is known to occur in India (Kerala, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand), Nepal, and Pakistan ( Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016)