Microsericaria quadripunctata ( Brenske, 1896 )

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 : 364

Microsericaria quadripunctata ( Brenske, 1896)

( Figs 86–89 , 101 )

Microserica quadripunctata Brenske, 1896: 154 ; Brenske 1898: 255.

Microsericaria quadripunctata: Nikolajev 1979: 190 ; Ahrens 1995b: 40; Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016: 61.

Material examined. 4 ♂♂ “ West Bengal, Bankura, Belboni, 03.ix.1986, leg. P. Mukherjee” ( NZCI). Distribution. India: Chhota Nagpure, Kerala, and West Bengal (Bankura); Nepal (Balkot) ( Ahrens & Fabrizi

2016; this paper). Remark. This is the first state record of this species for West Bengal.

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.