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Melolontha guttigera Sharp 1876

  • 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).

Notes

Published as part of Gupta, Devanshu, Keith, Denis, Bhunia, Debika, Das, Priyanka, Ghosh, Joyjit & Chandra, Kailash, 2023, Review of Melolontha Fabricius, 1775 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) from India with the description of two new species, pp. 191-216 in Zootaxa 5263 (2) on page 193, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5263.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/7800978

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Additional details

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

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  • 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.