Gynaecoserica pellecta Brenske, 1896

Ahrens, Dirk & Fabrizi, Silvia, 2009, A review of the genus Gynaecoserica Brenske, 1896 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Sericini), Journal of Natural History 43 (25 - 26), pp. 1505-1584 : 1572

Gynaecoserica pellecta Brenske, 1896

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Gynaecoserica pellecta Brenske, 1896: 154 ; 1898: 235, 314; Ahrens 1996: 34; 2004: 106; 2006: 410.

Serica minutula Brenske, 1894 (nec Heer, 1862): 11, 50; Brenske 1898: 235.

Gynaecoserica minutula: Ahrens 1996: 34 ; 1999: 183.

Remarks

The species was revised by Ahrens (1996). The species is distributed in the mountains from eastern Central-Nepal to Bhutan, but there is also a single record in the lowland of Assam ( India) ( Figure 9A ).

Figures

Figure 9. Distribution of Gynaecoserica species (A, upper panel; B, lower panel). “?” in (B) indicates the not precisely localized collecting locality of G. gisionensis sp. nov. in Vientiane province in Laos.