Maladera vernacula Ahrens & Fabrizi, 2016

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 : 508

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.4668361
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treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Maladera vernacula Ahrens & Fabrizi, 2016
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Material examined. 1 male: “ India: Kerala, Thrissur, Peechi , 133 m, 10° 32’ N, 76° 20’ E, 28.v.2019, leg. K. Sreedevi and Judith Correya” ( NBAIR) GoogleMaps ; 8 males “ India: Karnataka, Chikmagalur, Mudigere , 970 m, 13°14’ N, 75°60’ E, 17.iv.2019, leg. R. Naveen ” ( NBAIR) GoogleMaps .

Remark. This is a new record from Kerala. The species is earlier known from neighbouring states Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. ( Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016; Sreedevi et al. 2019).