Maladera tyrannica (Brenske, 1894)

Chandra, Kailash, Ahrens, Dirk, Bhunia, Debika, Sreedevi, Kolla & Gupta, Devanshu, 2021, New species and records of Sericini from India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae Melolonthinae), Zootaxa 4951 (3), pp. 492-510 : 508

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4951.3.4
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1A39DCF0-FCAC-4927-AFD3-EBF049F00A9B
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4668359
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scientific name	Maladera tyrannica (Brenske, 1894)
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Material examined. 1 male: “ India: Madhya Pradesh. Hoshangabad, Panchmari Biosphere Reserve, Mahadev Forest Guest House, 1,067m, 22.75083333N, 77.73444444E, 06.vi.1999, leg. K. Chandra ” ( NZSI) GoogleMaps ; 1 male: “ India: Madhya Pradesh, Pench Tiger Reserve, Seoni, Turiya , 22.37821333N, 79.81612267E, 611m, 23.vi.2001, leg. K. Chandra ” ( NZSI) GoogleMaps ; 2 males: “ India: Chhattisgarh, Jashpur, Badalkhol, Kuhapani , 22.87722222N, 84.13694444E, 24.vi.2015, leg. A. Majumder ” ( NZSI) GoogleMaps ; 4 males: “ India: Chhattisgarh, Raigarh, Gomerdha , 21.89429N, 83.39427E, 25636/H4A, 27.vi.2015, leg. A. Majumder ” ( NZSI) GoogleMaps ; 1 male: “ Karnataka, Shimoga, Thirthahalli , 591 m, 13°69’ N, 75°25’ E, 16.vii.2019, leg. R. Naveen ” ( NBAIR) ; 8 males, 7 females: “ India: Karnataka, Chikmagalur, Mudigere , 970 m, 13°14’ N, 75°60’ E, 10.iv.2019, leg. R. Naveen ” ( NBAIR) GoogleMaps .

Remark. This is the first state record of this species for Chhattisgarh, earlier known to occur in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Madhya Pradesh ( Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016; Sreedevi et al. 2018).