Oxyserica darjeelingia ( Brenske, 1898 )

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 : 366

Oxyserica darjeelingia ( Brenske, 1898)

( Figs 94–97 , 101 )

Microserica darjeelingia Brenske, 1898: 319 ; Ahrens 1995b: 52, 2001a: 220.

Oxyserica darjeelingia: Ahrens 2004b: 192, 2006a: 413 ; Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016: 135; Ahrens et al. 2023: 69 .

Material examined. 4 ♂♂ “ Bihar, West Champaran , 04.x.2016, leg. R. S. Mridha ” ( NZCI) .

Distribution. India: Bihar and West Bengal ( Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016; this paper).

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

Figures

FIGURE 101. (A–B). A. Gangetic plains biogeographic zone of India; B. Map of Lower Gangetic plains showing sample localities of the species: Maladera sprecherae, M. submucronata, Microsericaria quadripunctata, Neoserica quadrilamellata, Oxyserica darjeelingia.

FIGURES 86–97. (86–89). Microsericaria quadripunctata (Brenske, 1896) (Bankura, West Bengal); (90–93). Neoserica quadrilamellata (Brenske, 1896) (West Champaran, Bihar); (94–97). Oxyserica darjeelingia (Brenske, 1898) (West Champaran, Bihar); (86, 90, 94) Aedeagus in lateral view (left); (86, 90, 94) Aedeagus in dorsal view; (87, 91, 95) Aedeagus in lateral view (right); (88, 92, 96) Habitus, dorsal view. Scale 0.5 mm. Habitus not to scale.