Maladera jaintiaensis Ahrens & Fabrizi, 2016

Fabrizi, Silvia, Liu, Wan-Gang, Bai, Ming, Yang, Xing-Ke & Ahrens, Dirk, 2021, A monograph of the genus Maladera Mulsant & Rey, 1871 of China (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), Zootaxa 4922 (1), pp. 1-400 : 149-150

Maladera jaintiaensis Ahrens & Fabrizi, 2016

Figures 32 I–M, 103

Maladera jaintiaensis Ahrens & Fabrizi, 2016: 224 .

Additional material examined. China: 1 ♂ “ Pingshiang Süd-China Dr. Kreyenberg ” ( DEIC) , 1 ♂ “ Kuatun (2300 m) 27, 40 n. Br. 117,40 ö. L. J. Klapperich 9.4.1938 (Fukien) / Paratype Autoserica fusca G. Frey 1972 “ ( ZFMK), 1 ♂ “ Kuatun (2300 m) 27, 40 n. Br. 117,40 ö. L. J. Klapperich 29.4.1938 (Fukien)” ( CF). Laos: 1 ♂ “ Laos : Bolikhamsai pr. 18°16’N 103°11’E, 70 km NEE Vientiane, 27.-30.iv. 1997, 150m, Vit Kuban leg./ 266 Sericini Asia spec.” ( CP) .

Remarks. The species was originally described from northeastern India and China ( Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016).

Distribution. See map ( Fig. 103 ) and Table 1.

Figures

FIGURE 32. A–D: Maladera guomenshanica Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu, sp. n. (holotype); E–H: M. hansmalickyi Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu, sp. n.; I–M: M. jaintiaensis Ahrens & Fabrizi, 2016 (holotype). A, E, I: aedeagus, left side lateral view; C, G, L: aedeagus, right side lateral view; B, F, J: parameres, dorsal view; K: parameres, ventral view;D, H, M: habitus. Scale: 0.5 mm. Habitus not to scale.;

FIGURE 103. Distribution of the Maladera thomsoni group: Maladera jaintiaensis Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016, M. juxianensis sp. n., M. kubeceki sp. n., M. pseudosenta sp. n., M. senta (Brenske, 1897), M. straminea (Moser, 1915), M. subtruncata (Fairmaire, 1887).