Melolontha guttigera Sharp 1876
Authors/Creators
- 1. Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata- 700053, West Bengal, India.
- 2. 120 rue Gabriel Péri, F- 28000 Chartres, France.
- 3. Former Director, Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata- 700053, West Bengal, India. kailash 611 @ rediffmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9076 - 5442
Description
Melolontha guttigera Sharp, 1876
(Figs. 1, 13, 41, 53)
Melolontha guttigera Sharp 1876: 87 (type locality: India); Barlow 1899: 270 (catalogue); Arrow 1913a: 192 (comment on placement of genus and sexual dimorphism); Arrow 1913b: 401 (comment on placement of genus and sexual dimorphism); Bezděk 2006: 195 (catalogue); Li et al. 2010: 351, figs., 24, 24, 25, 32, 37, 42, 47, 52, 57, 61 (lectotype designation); Chandra & Gupta 2012: 890, fig. 2A (distribution); Bezděk 2016: 231 (catalogue).
Hoplosternus guttigera: Nonfried 1892: 285 (checklist); Brenske 1900: 154 (diagnosis).
Hoplosternus guttiger: Dalla Torre 1912: 264 (catalogue, misspelling); Sabatinelli 1992: 613 (catalogue, misspelling).
Material examined. India, West Bengal: Darjeeling, Ghum, 750ft. 09.ix.1908, 1♀, Mus. Coll. [NZSI]; Darjeeling, Ghum, 750ft. 18.ix.1908, 1♁, 2♀, leg. Major Bennett [NZSI]; Kurseong, 5,000 ft., 1♁, leg. N.B. Jahans [NZSI]; Darjeeling, Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary, Latpanchar Beat Office, 26.53.463N, 88.23.958E, 3662ft, 08.xi.2017, 3♁, 2♀, leg. D. Suresh Chand [NZSI]; Darjeeling, Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary, Latpanchar Beat Office, 26.53.463N, 88.23.958E, 3662 ft., 3.xi.2018, 2♁, 3♀, leg. D. Suresh Chand [NZSI]; Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary, Karli Line, Antipoaching Tower 1, 741ft. 31.x.2018, 1♁, leg. D. Suresh Chand [NZSI]; Neora Valley National Park, Ashaley Camp, Samsing Beat, 22.ix.2018, 1♁, leg. P.C. Pathania [NZSI]. India, Arunachal Pradesh: Itanagar, ZSI Complex, 1 ex., leg. P.T. Bhutia [NZSI]; Kameng, Bhalulpong, 7.ix.1998, 1♁, leg. A.R. Lahiri [NZSI]; Dibang Valley, Roing, Jia, 26.i.2000, 1♁, leg. S.K. Mandal [NZSI]; Bhalukpong Circuit House, 216m, 30.ix.2001, 1♁, leg. Dhriti Banerjee [NZSI]; Domrah, 480m, 27.ix.2002, 1♀, leg. M. Sil [NZSI]; Lower Dibang Valley Patrolling Route, 21.x.2015, 1♁, leg. S.D. Gurumayum [NZSI].
Diagnosis. Refer to the key to the species groups.
Distribution. India: Arunachal Pradesh (Chandra & Gupta 2012), Sikkim (Li et al. 2010), and West Bengal (Barlow 1899); Nepal (Li et al. 2010).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- NZSI
- Event date
- 1908-09-09 , 1998-09-07
- Verbatim event date
- 1908-09-09/2018-11-03 , 1998-09-07/2015-10-21
- Scientific name authorship
- Sharp
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Melolonthidae
- Genus
- Melolontha
- Species
- guttigera
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Melolontha guttigera Sharp, 1876 sec. Gupta, Keith, Bhunia, Das, Ghosh & Chandra, 2023
References
- Sharp, D. (1876) Descriptions of some new species of Scarabaeidae from tropical Asia and Malaysia. Coleopterologische Hefte, 15, 65 - 90.
- Barlow, E. (1899) List of the Melolonthini contained in the collection of the Indian Museum. Indian Museum Notes, 4 (5), 234 - 273.
- Arrow, G. J. (1913 a) Coleoptera IV: Lamellicornia. Records of the Indian Museum, 8, 191 - 196. https: // doi. org / 10.26515 / rzsi / v 8 / i 3 / 1913 / 163144
- Arrow, G. J. (1913 b) Notes on the Lamellicorn Coleoptera of Japan and descriptions of a few new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 8, 12 (70), 394 - 408. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222931308693416
- Bezdek, A. (2006) Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae. In: Lobl, I. & Smetana, S. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera 3. Apollo Books, Stenstrup and Denmark, pp. 181 - 228.
- Li, C. - L., Yang, P. - S. & Wang, C. - C. (2010) Revision of the Melolontha guttigera group with a key and an annotated checklist of the East and South-East Asian Melolontha groups. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 103 (3), 341 - 359. https: // doi. org / 10.1603 / AN 09088
- Bezdek, A. (2016) Melolonthini. In: Lobl, I. & Lobl, D. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera 3 Scarabaeoidea - Scirtoidea - Dascilloidea - Buprestoidea - Byrrhoidea. Revised and updated edition. Brill, Leiden and Boston, pp. 226 - 236.
- Nonfried, A. F. (1892) Verzeichniss der seit 1871 neu beschriebenen Glaphyriden, Melolonthiden und Euchiriden. Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift, 37 (3), 249 - 290. https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / mmnd. 18920370302
- Brenske, E. (1900) Contribution a letude de la faune de Sumatra (Cote ouest-Vice-residence de Painan) VIII Melolonthiden gesammelt von J-L Weyers. Memoires de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, 7, 141 - 155.
- Dalla Torre, K. W. von (1912) Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae I. In: Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (Eds.), Coleopterorum Catalogus. Pars 49. W. Junk, Berlin, pp. 1 - 290.
- Sabatinelli, G. (1992) Catalogue of the Scarabaeoidea Melolonthidae from Himalaya and North India: Macrodactylini, Hopliini, Diplotaxini, Melolonthini and Sericini (Coleoptera). Memorie della Societa Entomologica Italiana, 71 (2), 593 - 636.