Paraserica grisea (Motschulsky, 1866)

Liu, Wan-Gang, Fabrizi, Silvia, Yang, Xingke, Bai, Ming & Ahrens, Dirk, 2017, New species of Nipponoserica and Paraserica from China (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Sericini), ZooKeys 721, pp. 65-91 : 72

Paraserica grisea (Motschulsky, 1866) Figure 5

Serica grisea Motschulsky, 1866: 171; Brenske 1897: 424, 1902: 48; Niijima and Kinoshita 1923: 15; Sawada 1937: 12.

Paraserica grisea : Reitter 1896: 183; Nakane and Baba 1960: 5; Nomura 1963: 125, 1966: 74, 1973: 124; Nakane 1972: 426; Ahrens 2004b: 7, 2007: 31.

Additional material examined.

1 ex. "Tsumbame-spa Myoko-Mts. Niigata-pref. 25.VII.1992 S. Tsuyuki leg." (ZFMK), 1 ex. "Japan Kioto" (ZFMK), 1 ex. "China: Shaanxi 21.-23.VI.1998 Quing Ling Shan mts., road Baoji-Taibai pass 35km S of Baoji O. Safranek & M. Trycna leg." (ZFMK), 1 ex. "China, W Hubei, 20.V. 5km S Lúcongpo 30.8N 110.25E Jaroslav Turna leg., 2004" (ZFMK), 4 ex. "China: Shaanxi prov., 21.-23. June 1998 Quing Ling Shan road Baoji-Tabai vill. pass. 40km S Baoji Zd. Jindra lgt." (ZFMK), 2 ex. "China, W Hubei, 3.V.-15.VII. Muyuping NW env. 31°27'N, 110°22'E, 1600m Jaroslav Turna leg., 2006" (ZFMK), 1 ♂, 1 ♀ "Mts. Tsukuba, 12.VII.1932" (IZAS).

Distribution.

The species is distributed in Japan and newly recorded for the Chinese provinces of Hubei and Shaanxi.