Maladera cardoni (Brenske, 1896)

Material examined. 1 male: “ India: Assam, Barpeta, Manas Tiger Reserve, 10.iv.1986, leg. S.S. Saha “(NZSI) ; 1 male: “ India: Uttarakhand, Garhwal, Tehri, Roddhar, 16.v.2002, leg. S.K. Chakraborty ” (NZSI) ; 2 males: “ India: Himachal Pradesh, Solan, Nauni, 1325 m, 30°90’N, 77°10’E, 6.vi.2019, leg. K. Sreedevi ” (NBAIR) ; 1 male: “ India: Punjab, Ludhiana, 30°90’N, 75°86’E, 3.x.2006, leg. Rajinder and Amardeep ” (NBAIR) ; 1 male: “ India: Tamil Nadu, Rajapalayam, 14.xi.2006, leg. Ravikumara ” (NBAIR) ; 2 males: “ India: Rajasthan, Jaipur, 431 m, 26° 91’ N, 75° 79’ E, 2.viii.2019, leg. K. Sreedevi and A. S. Baloda ” (NBAIR) .

Remark. This is the first state record of this species for Assam and Tamil Nadu, previously recorded from India (Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, West Bengal), and Bhutan, Nepal, Afghanistan and Pakistan (Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016).