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Issue: Vol. 4951 No. 3: 7 Apr. 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-04-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4951.3.4
Page range: 492–510
Abstract views: 182
PDF downloaded: 18

New species and records of Sericini from India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae)

Zoological Survey of India, M–Block, New Alipore, Kolkata–700053, West Bengal, India.
Centre for Taxonomy and Evolutionary Research; Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig Bonn, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn, Germany.
Zoological Survey of India, M–Block, New Alipore, Kolkata–700053, West Bengal, India.
Division of Germplasm Collection and Characterization, ICAR–National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources P.B. No. 2491, H.A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bengaluru–560024; Karnataka, India.
Zoological Survey of India, M–Block, New Alipore, Kolkata–700053, West Bengal, India.
Coleoptera Taxonomy chafers new species India

Abstract

Five new sericine species (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) are described, diagnosed and illustrated from India: Lepidoserica barapaniensis Chandra, Ahrens, Bhunia, Sreedevi & Gupta, new species, Maladera kaimurensis Chandra, Ahrens, Bhunia, Sreedevi & Gupta, new species, M. silviafabriziae Chandra, Ahrens, Bhunia, Sreedevi & Gupta, new species, M. kottagudiensis Chandra, Ahrens, Bhunia, Sreedevi & Gupta, new species, and M. tripuraensis Chandra, Ahrens, Bhunia, Sreedevi & Gupta, new species. This paper also presents new locality records, including first state records for 74 species (including two subspecies) of Sericini from the Indian subcontinent.

 

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