Maladera schenklingi ( Moser, 1918 )

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 schenklingi ( Moser, 1918)

( Figs 66–69 , 100 )

Autoserica schenklingi Moser, 1918 a: 214 .

Maladera schenklingi: Ahrens 2004b: 320 ; Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016: 216.

Material examined. 1 ♂ “ India: Bihar, Purnea, Bhogaon , 19.xi.1909, leg. C. Paiva ” ( NZCI) .

Distribution. India: Bihar, West Bengal, Maharashtra, and Meghalaya, Assam; Nepal ( Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016; 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 62–73. (62–65). Maladera rufocuprea (Blanchard, 1850) (Bankura, West Bengal); (66–69). Maladera schenklingi (Moser, 1918) (Purnea, Bihar); (70–73). Maladera setosa (Brenske, 1896) (West Champaran, Bihar); (62, 66, 70) Aedeagus in lateral view (left); (63, 67, 71) Aedeagus in dorsal view; (64, 68, 72) Aedeagus in lateral view (right); (65, 69, 73) Habitus, dorsal view. Scale 0.5 mm. Habitus not to scale.