Maladera siniaevi Ahrens, 2004

Bhunia, Debika, Gupta, Devanshu, Sarkar, Subhankar Kumar & Ahrens, Dirk, 2023, A new species and new records of Sericini chafers from the Lower Gangetic Plains in India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericinae), Zootaxa 5353 (4), pp. 351-371 : 362

Maladera siniaevi Ahrens, 2004

( Figs 74–77 , 100 )

Maladera siniaevi Ahrens 2004b: 284 (incorrect original spelling).

Maladera siniaevi: Ahrens 2006a: 414 (corrected subsequent spelling); Ahrens & Fabrizi 2009b: 275, 2016: 151.

Material examined. 4 ♂♂ India: “ West Bengal, Jalpaiguri, Gajoldoba 29.x.22, leg. Debika Bhunia ” ( NZCI) , 3 ♂♂ “ India: Bihar, Kaimur, Kudra , 25˚01.46.2 N, 83˚48.51.8 E, 22.12.2021, leg. Devanshu Gupta ” ( NZCI) .

Distribution. India: Assam, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim and West Bengal (Darjeeling); Bhutan and northern Myanmar ( Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016; Sreedevi et al. 2019; Chandra et al. 2021; this paper).

Remark. This is the first record of this species for Bihar.

Figures

FIGURE 100. (A–B). A. Gangetic plains biogeographic zone of India; B. Map of Lower Gangetic plains showing sample localities of the species: Maladera proxima, M. reyaensis, M. rufocuprea, M. schenklingi, M.setosa, M. siniaevi.

FIGURES 74–85. (74–77). Maladera siniaevi Ahrens, 2004 (Kaimur, Bihar); (78–81). Maladera sprecherae Ahrens, 2004 (Jalpaiguri, West Bengal); (82–85). Maladera submucronata Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016 (Kaimur, Bihar); (74, 78, 82). Aedeagus in lateral view (left); (75, 79, 83) Aedeagus in dorsal view; (76, 80, 84) Aedeagus in lateral view (right); (77, 81, 85) Habitus, dorsal view. Scale 0.5 mm. Habitus not to scale.