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Maladera Mulsant & Rey 1871

Description

Maladera (subgen. Aserica Lewis, 1895)

Aserica Lewis, 1895: 394 (type species Autoserica secreta Brenske, 1897; by subsequent designation-Arrow 1946a).

Maladera (subg. Aserica): Ahrens 2006b: 234; 2007b: 19; Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016: 136

Key to species of Maladera (sbg. Aserica) occurring in China (³³):

1 Parameres without basal lobe. Median apical phallobasal process nearly completely reduced in length.............................................................................. Maladera shaowuensis Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu, sp. n.

1’ Parameres with distinct basal lobe. Median apical phallobasal process long.............. Maladera secreta (Brenske, 1897)

Notes

Published as part of Fabrizi, Silvia, Liu, Wan-Gang, Bai, Ming, Yang, Xing-Ke & Ahrens, Dirk, 2021, A monograph of the genus Maladera Mulsant & Rey, 1871 of China (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), pp. 1-400 in Zootaxa 4922 (1) on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4922.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4496316

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Mulsant & Rey
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Melolonthidae
Genus
Maladera
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Maladera Mulsant, 1871 sec. Fabrizi, Liu, Bai, Yang & Ahrens, 2021

References

  • Lewis, G. (1895) On the Lamellicorn Coleoptera of Japan and notices of others. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 6, 16, 374 - 408. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222939508680291
  • Brenske, E. (1897) Die Serica - Arten der Erde. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift, 42, 345 - 468. https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / mmnd. 18970420310
  • Ahrens, D. (2006 b) Sericinae. In: Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 3. Scarabaeoidea-Scirtoidea-Dascilloidea-Buprestoidea-Byrrhoidea. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, pp. 229 - 248.
  • Ahrens, D. (2007 b) 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 - 355.