Maladera bengalensis ( 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 : 355-356

Maladera bengalensis ( Brenske, 1898)

( Figs 17–21 , 98 )

Autoserica bengalensis Brenske, 1898: 250 .

Maladera bengalensis: Ahrens 2004: 256 ; Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016: 186.

Material examined. 2 ♂♂“ India: West Bengal, Jalpaiguri, Gorumara National Park, Bhichaphanga Beat, 26°45´849”

N, 88°48´651”E, 30.x.2018, leg. S. Chand ” ( NZCI) , 1 ♂ “ India: West Bengal, Bankura, Chaltha, 24.vii.22, leg. Suresh Chand ” ( NZCI) , 4 ♂♂ “ India: Bihar West Champaran , 04.x.2016, leg. R.S. Mridha ” ( NZCI) .

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

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

Figures

FIGURE 98. (A–B). A. Gangetic plains biogeographic zone of India; B. Map of Lower Gangetic plains showing sample localities of the species: Maladera kolkataensis, Gynaecoserica perdita, Maladera affinis, M. allopruinosa, M. bengalensi, M. burmeisteri burmeisteri, M. cardoni.

FIGURES 13–25. (13–16). Maladera allopruinosa (Ahrens, 1998) (Purba Bardhaman, West Bengal); (17–21). Maladera bengalensis (Brenske, 1898) (West Champaran, Bihar); (22–25). Maladera burmeisteri burmeisteri (Brenske, 1898) (Purba bardhaman, west Bengal); (13, 17, 22) Aedeagus in lateral view (left); (14, 18, 23) Aedeagus in dorsal view; (19) Aedeagus in ventral view; (15, 20, 24) Aedeagus in lateral view (right); (16, 21, 25) Habitus, dorsal view. Scale 0.5 mm. Habitus not to scale.