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Maladera marginella

Creators

  • 1. Entomology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Kalyani, Kalyani - 741235, West Bengal, India sksarkarzoo 18 @ klyuniv. ac. in; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4129 - 2148
  • 2. Museum A. Koenig, Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB), Adenauerallee 127, 53113 Bonn, Germany ahrens. dirk _ col @ gmx. de; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3524 - 7153

Description

Maladera marginella (Hope, 1831)

(Figs 50–53, 99)

Serica marginella Hope, 1831: 24; Brenske 1896: 152.

Omaloplia marginella: Blanchard 1850: 78.

Autoserica marginella: Brenske 1898: 307.

Maladera marginella: Ahrens 2004b: 253, 2006a: 414; Ahrens & Fabrizi 2009b: 270, 2016: 201; Shrestha et al. 2012: 381.

Microserica semirufa Brenske, 1898: 320; synonymized by Ahrens 2004b: 253.

Material examined. 1 ♂ “ India: West Bengal, Tarekaswar, 19.vii.1964, leg. D. N. Nandi ” (NZCI), 1 ♂ “ India, Bihar, West Champaran, 04.x.2016, leg. R.S. Mridha ” (NZCI).

Distribution. India: Bihar, West Bengal, Meghalaya, and Sikkim (Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016; Chandra et al. 2021; this paper); Nepal (Ahrens 2004).

Remarks. This is the first state records of this species for Bihar and West Bengal.

Notes

Published as part of 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), pp. 351-371 in Zootaxa 5353 (4) on page 359, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5353.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/8430714

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Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.8430729 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.8430755 (DOI)
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Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5353.4.3 (DOI)
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Biodiversity

Collection code
NZCI
Event date
1964-07-19 , 2016-10-04
Family
Scarabaeidae
Genus
Maladera
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Hope
Species
marginella
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
1964-07-19 , 2016-10-04
Taxonomic concept label
Maladera marginella (Hope, 1831) sec. Bhunia, Gupta, Sarkar & Ahrens, 2023

References

  • Hope, F. W. (1831) Synopsis of the species of Nepaul Insects in the collection of Major General Hardwicke. Zoological Miscellany, 1, 21 - 33.
  • Brenske, E. (1896) Insectes du Bengale. Melolonthidae. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, 40, 150 - 164.
  • Blanchard, C. (1850) Ier Famille - Scarabaeidae. In: Milne-Edwards, H., Blanchard, C. E. & Lucas, H. (Eds.), Catalogue de la collection entomologique du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Classe des insectes. Ordre des Coleopteres. Tome I. Premiere livraison. Gide et Baudry, Paris, pp. 1 - 128.
  • Brenske, E. (1898) Die Serica - Arten der Erde. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift, 43, 205 - 403. https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / mmnd. 47918980303
  • Ahrens, D. (2004 b) Monographie der Sericini des Himalaya (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Dissertation. de - Verlag im Internet GmbH, Berlin, 534 pp.
  • Ahrens, D. (2006 a) Additional data on taxonomy and distribution on Sericini of the Himalayas, with description a further new species of Maladera (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). In: Hartmann, M. & Baumbach, H. (Eds.), Biodiversitat und Naturausstattung im Himalaya. Vol. 1. Verein der Freunde und Forderer des Naturkundemuseums Erfurt e. V., Erfurt, pp. 409 - 418.
  • Ahrens, D. & Fabrizi, S. (2009 b) New species of Sericini from the Eastern Himalaya and Tibet (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). In: Hartmann, M. & Weipert, M. (Eds.), Biodiversitat und Naturausstattung im Himalaya III. Verein der Freunde und Forderer des Naturkundemuseums Erfurt e. V., Erfurt, pp. 249 - 284.
  • Ahrens, D. & Fabrizi, S. (2016) A monograph of the Sericini of India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Bonn zoological Bulletin, 65, 1 - 355.
  • Shrestha, J., Eberle, J. & Ahrens, D. (2012) Further data on the distribution of Himalayan Sericini from the collection of Naturel History Museum Erfurt (Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) with description of a new Xenoserica from West- Nepal. Vernate, 31, 379 - 386.
  • Chandra, K., Ahrens, D., Bhunia, D., Sreedevi, K. & Gupta, D. (2021) New species and records of Sericini from India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). Zootaxa, 4951 (3), 492 - 510. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4951.3.4