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Nepaloserica longispina Ahrens 1999

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

Nepaloserica longispina Ahrens, 1999

Nepaloserica longispina Ahrens, 1999b: 212; Ahrens 2004a: 65, 2006c: 240, 2007c: 27, 2012: 309; Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016: 28; Ahrens & Bezděk 2016: 302, 2024a: 31.

TL: “ Nepal Prov., Nr. 3 East Chialsa / Solu Khola Tal, 2700 m ”. TD: holotype: NHMB.

Distribution: Nepal (Ahrens 1999b; Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016).

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 73, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5895.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/23927463

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Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5895.1.1 (DOI)
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Biodiversity

Collection code
NHMB
Scientific name authorship
Ahrens
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Scarabaeidae
Genus
Nepaloserica
Species
longispina
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Nepaloserica longispina Ahrens, 1999 sec. Sreedevi, Balaji, Gupta, Bhunia, Bhatia & Ahrens, 2026

References

  • Ahrens, D. (1999 b) New species and records of Gynaecoserica Brenske, 1896, Calloserica Brenske, 1894, Nepaloserica Frey, 1965 and Lasioserica Brenske, 1896 from the Himalayas and adjacent regions. (Coleoptera: Melolonthidae, Sericini). Entomologische Abhandlungen des Staatlichen Museums fur Tierkunde Dresden, 58, 181-242.
  • Ahrens, D. (2004 a) Monographie der Sericini des Himalaya (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Dissertation. de, Berlin, 534 pp.
  • Ahrens, D. (2006 c) Sericinae. In: Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 3. Scarabaeoidea - Scirtoidea - Dascilloidea - Buprestoidea - Byrrhoidea. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, pp. 229-248.
  • Ahrens, D. (2007 c) Taxonomic changes and an updated Catalogue of Palearctic Sericini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). Zootaxa, 1504 (1), 1-51. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1504.1.1
  • Ahrens, D. & Fabrizi, S. (2016) A monograph of the Sericini of India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Bonn zoological Bulletin, 65 (1 - 2), 1-355.
  • Ahrens, D. & Bezdek, A. (2016) Sericini. In: Lobl, I. & Lobl, D. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 3. Scarabaeoidea - Scirtoidea - Dascilloidea - Buprestoidea - Byrrhoidea. Revised and Updated Edition. Brill, Leiden, pp. 281-317. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004309142_003