Maladera lugubris ( 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 : 359

Maladera lugubris ( Brenske, 1896)

( Figs 46–49 , 99 )

Serica lugubris Brenske, 1896: 152 ; Barlow 1899: 244.

Autoserica lugubris: Brenske 1898: 245 .

Maladera lugubris: Ahrens 2004b: 233 ; Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016: 166.

Material examined. 2 ♂♂ “ India: West Bengal, Bankura, Chaltha , 24.vii.22, leg. Suresh. Chand ” ( NZCI) .

Distribution. India: Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand and West Bengal ( Bankura ) ( Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016; Chandra et al. 2021; this paper).

Remarks. This is the first record of this species for West Bengal (Bankura).

Figures

FIGURE 99. (A–B). A. Gangetic plains biogeographic zone of India; B. Map of Lower Gangetic plains showing sample localities of the species: M. drescheri, M. freyi, M. iridescens, M. kaimurensis, M. lugubris, M. marginella.

FIGURES 38–49. (38–41). Maladera iridescens (Blanchard, 1850) (Bankura, West Bengal); (42–45). Maladera kaimurensis Chandra, Ahrens, Bhunia, Sreedevi & Gupta, 2021 (Kaimur, Bihar); (46–49). Maladera lugubris (Brenske, 1896) (Bankura, West Bengal); (38, 42, 46) Aedeagus in lateral view (left); (39, 43, 47) Aedeagus in dorsal view; (40, 44, 48) Aedeagus in lateral view (right); (41, 45, 49) Habitus, dorsal view. Scale 0.5 mm. Habitus not to scale.