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Neoserica pophami Ranasinghe, Eberle, Athukorala, Benjamin & Ahrens 2022
Authors/Creators
- 1. 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 kolla. sreedevi @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5242 - 0654 rkbalaji 17 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2006 - 0081 vanshikabhatia 302 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0007 - 1381 - 6219
- 2. Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata- 700053, West Bengal, India devanshuguptagb 4102 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9188 - 4689 dbhunia 92 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7957 - 0334
- 3. Museum Koenig Bonn, 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 * Corresponding authors
Description
Neoserica pophami Ranasinghe, Eberle, Athukorala, Benjamin & Ahrens, 2022
Neoserica pophami Ranasinghe, Eberle, Athukorala, Benjamin & Ahrens, 2022: 66.
TL: “ Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum ”. TD: holotype: ZFMK.
Distribution: Sri Lanka (Ranasinghe et al. 2022).
Notes
Published as part of Sreedevi, Kolla, Balaji, Rajasekaran Krishna, Gupta, Devanshu, Bhunia, Debika, Bhatia, Vanshika & Ahrens, Dirk, 2026, A catalogue of Sericini chafers of Indian subcontinent (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 1-113 in Zootaxa 5895 (1) on page 69, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5895.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/23927463
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Ranasinghe, Eberle, Athukorala, Benjamin & Ahrens
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Genus
- Neoserica
- Species
- pophami
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Neoserica pophami Ranasinghe, 2022 sec. Sreedevi, Balaji, Gupta, Bhunia, Bhatia & Ahrens, 2026
References
- Ranasinghe, S., Eberle, J., Athukorala, N., Benjamin, S. P. & Ahrens, D. (2022) New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy, 821, 57-101. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799