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Issue: Vol. 5692 No. 1: 11 Sept. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-09-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5692.1.9
Page range: 175-189
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Descriptions of new species and new records of Sericini from Southern India and Nagaland (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericinae)

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
Centre for Taxonomy and Evolutionary Research; Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig Bonn; Adenauerallee 127; 53113 Bonn; Germany
Coleoptera Sericini taxonomy chafers new species India

Abstract

Six new species of Sericini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericinae) are described from India: Maladera silviae Sreedevi & Ahrens, sp. nov., M. judithae Sreedevi & Ahrens, sp. nov., M. thandigudiensis Sreedevi & Ahrens, sp. nov., M. (Hemiserica) subinaequalis Sreedevi & Ahrens, sp. nov., Neoserica berlineri Sreedevi & Ahrens, sp. nov., and Selaserica peechi Sreedevi & Ahrens, sp. nov. For the new species, differential diagnoses and illustrations of male genitalia and habitus are provided. This paper also presents new locality records of 29 species from India, including one first country and 11 new state records.

 

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How to Cite

Sreedevi, K. & Ahrens, D. (2025) Descriptions of new species and new records of Sericini from Southern India and Nagaland (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericinae). Zootaxa, 5692 (1), 175–189. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5692.1.9