taxonID	type	description	language	source
03A99E29FF88307EFDBAEEC14D2C1170.taxon	description	urn: lsid: zoobank. org: act: 12205 E 52 - C 260 - 4128 - 9 A 23 - 4 A 7 F 6 D 9 D 2067 Figs 3 A – D, 7 A, 8 A	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF88307EFDBAEEC14D2C1170.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis Selaserica fabriziae sp. nov. is in shape of aedeagus rather similar to Sel. sericea (Arrow, 1916), it differs by the shiny dorsal body surface and the shape of the parameres and phallobase: the median dorsoapical sinuation of the phallobase is much narrower (than in Sel. sericea), the parameres are bent dorsally at the apex (not bent in Sel. sericea).	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF88307EFDBAEEC14D2C1170.taxon	etymology	Etymology The new species is dedicated to Silvia Fabrizi, who passed away too early, in memory of her and for all her efforts for Sericini taxonomy (noun in genitive singular case). We will not forget you, Silvia!	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF88307EFDBAEEC14D2C1170.taxon	materials_examined	Type material Holotype SRI LANKA • ♂; “ X-SR 0859, Sri Lanka, Galle District, Kottawa FR, 6.09812 ºN, 80.31610 ºE, 44 m, 26 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK. Paratypes SRI LANKA • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 1948, Sri Lanka, Galle District, Kottawa FR, 6.09712 ºN, 80.31666 ºE; 46 m, 29 - 30 - VI- 2020, Benjamin & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 1956, Sri Lanka, Galle District, Kottawa FR, 6.09712 ºN, 80.31666 ºE; 46 m, 29 - 30 - VI- 2020, Benjamin & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 1957, Sri Lanka, Galle District, Kottawa FR, 6.09712 ºN, 80.31666 ºE; 46 m, 29 - 30 - VI- 2020, Benjamin & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 1958, Sri Lanka, Galle District, Kottawa FR, 6.09712 ºN, 80.31666 ºE; 46 m, 29 - 30 - VI- 2020, Benjamin & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 1959, Sri Lanka, Galle District, Kottawa FR, 6.09712 ºN, 80.31666 ºE; 46 m, 29 - 30 - VI- 2020, Benjamin & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 1960, Sri Lanka, Galle District, Kottawa FR, 6.09712 ºN, 80.31666 ºE; 46 m, 29 - 30 - VI- 2020, Benjamin & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 2118, Sri Lanka, Galle District, Kottawa FR, 6.09812 ºN, 80.31610 ºE, 44 m, 11 - XII- 2020; Ranasinghe & Athukorala, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 2119, Sri Lanka, Galle District, Kottawa FR, 6.09812 ºN, 80.31610 ºE, 44 m, 11 - XII- 2020; Ranasinghe & Athukorala, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 2120, Sri Lanka, Galle District, Kottawa FR, 6.09812 ºN, 80.31610 ºE, 44 m, 11 - XII- 2020; Ranasinghe & Athukorala, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 2121, Sri Lanka, Galle District, Kottawa FR, 6.09812 ºN, 80.31610 ºE, 44 m, 11 - XII- 2020; Ranasinghe & Athukorala, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 2122, Sri Lanka, Galle District, Kottawa FR, 6.09812 ºN, 80.31610 ºE, 44 m, 11 - XII- 2020; Ranasinghe & Athukorala, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♀; “ X- SR 1961, Sri Lanka, Galle District, Kottawa FR, 6.09812 ºN, 80.31610 ºE, 44 m, 30 - VI- 2020, Benjamin & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♀; “ X- SR 2123, Sri Lanka, Galle District, Kottawa FR, 6.09812 ºN, 80.31610 ºE, 44 m, 11 - XII- 2020; Ranasinghe & Athukorala, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♀; “ X- SR 2104, Sri Lanka, Galle District, Kottawa FR, 6.09712 ºN, 80.31666 ºE; 46 m, 11 - XII- 2020; Ranasinghe & Athukorala, Black light ”; ZFMK.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF88307EFDBAEEC14D2C1170.taxon	description	Description MEASUREMENTS. Length: 8.9 mm, length of elytra: 6.1 mm, width: 5.2 mm. HABITUS (Fig. 3 D) AND COLOURATION. Body oval, dark brown, antenna yellow, dorsal surface shiny and glabrous. HEAD. Labroclypeus subtrapezoidal, wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins weakly convex and convergent to moderately rounded anterior angles, lateral border and ocular canthus producing a blunt angle, margins weakly reflexed, anterior margin shallowly sinuate medially; surface strongly convex medially, weakly shiny, anterior half nearly impunctate, behind finely and densely punctate, distance between punctures subequal to their diameter, with a few fine setae behind anterior margin; frontoclypeal suture very feebly impressed and weakly angled medially; smooth area in front of eye approximately three times as wide as long; ocular canthus moderately long and narrow, impunctate but surface slightly concave, with a single short terminal seta. Frons with fine, moderately dense punctures, posterior half impunctate, surface glabrous except for a few setae anteriorly beside eyes. Eyes moderately large, ratio of diameter / interocular width: 0.7. Antenna yellowish brown, with ten antennomeres; club with four antennomeres, 1.3 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined. Mentum elevated and anteriorly flattened. PRONOTUM. Moderately wide, widest at base, lateral margins evenly convex and narrowed to anterior angles, anterior angles strongly produced and sharp, anterior marginal line widely incomplete medially, anterior margin moderately produced medially; surface densely and coarsely punctate, glabrous; anterior and lateral borders sparsely setose, basal margin without marginal line; hypomeron ventrobasally carinate and but not produced ventrally. Scutellum wide, triangular, with fine and dense punctures, each bearing a single very minute seta. ELYTRA. Oblong, widest in posterior third, striae indistinctly impressed, finely and densely punctate, intervals flat, with fine, moderately dense punctures concentrated along striae, punctures partly with minute setae, without longer erect setae; epipleural edge fine, ending at the convex external apical angle of elytra, epipleura densely setose, apical border membranous, apex covered with short microtrichomes. VENTRAL SURFACE. Dull, thorax and metacoxa with large and dense punctures, sparsely finely setose, metacoxa glabrous except for numerous short setae laterally; each abdominal sternite with generally distributed fine and dense punctures, without a distinct transverse row of coarse punctures each bearing a short seta, punctures with very short or minute setae, penultimate sternite apically with a shiny smooth but very short chitinous border. Mesosternum between mesocoxae little wider than mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum / metacoxa: 1 / 1.15. Pygidium lost in holotype. LEGS. Moderately wide; femur with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and moderately densely punctate; metafemur dull, anterior edge acute, with adjacent continuously serrated line, anterior longitudinal row of setae complete; posterior ventral margin almost straight, weakly widened in apical half, nor ventrally nor dorsally serrated, glabrous. Metatibia moderately wide and long, widest behind middle, dorsal and ventral margins in posterior two thirds subparallel, ratio width / length: 1 / 3.2, dorsally weakly edged, with two groups of spines, basal one at first quarter, apical one at three quarters of metatibial length, basally beside dorsal margin with a very short serrated line; lateral face longitudinally convex, with very sparse and fine punctures, punctures glabrous; ventral margin with three strong spines equidistant from each other, medial face smooth, apex interiorly near tarsal articulation distinctly concave. Tarsomeres impunctate dorsally, ventrally with dense, fine setae; metatarsomeres ventrally with a strongly serrated ridge, beside which is no strong longitudinal carina, first metatarsomere one quarter of its length longer than dorsal tibial spur, subsequent tarsomeres lacking in holotype. Protibia moderately long, tridentate. Protarsomeres lacking in holotype. AEDEAGUS. Fig. 3 A – C. Variation Length: 8.2 – 8.8 mm, length of elytra: 6.1 – 6.25 mm, width: 5.2 – 5.3 mm. Pygidium moderately convex, shiny, finely densely punctate, without smooth midline, glabrous except some longer setae along the apical margin. First metatarsomere one quarter of its length longer than dorsal tibial spur, slightly shorter than following two tarsomeres combined. Protibia moderately long, tridentate. Protarsomeres ventrally with some yellow setae, protarsal claws symmetrical, feebly curved and short, with normally developed basal tooth. Female Length: 8.8 – 9.2 mm, length of elytra: 6.2 – 7.0 mm, width: 5.5 – 5.7 mm. Eyes as large as in male; antennal club as long as remaining antennomeres combined.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF88307EFDBAEEC14D2C1170.taxon	distribution	Distribution See Fig. 7 A.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF8D3071FDA8E81A4D3211A7.taxon	description	urn: lsid: zoobank. org: act: 2 B 2 B 4 EB 0 - D 50 B- 409 B- 8 F 87 - 4577 B 9 BC 235 B Figs 3 E – H, 7 B, 8 B	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF8D3071FDA8E81A4D3211A7.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis Selaserica sororinitida sp. nov. is in shape of aedeagus and external morphology similar to Sel. nitida (Candèze, 1861) and Sel. knucklensis Fabrizi & Ahrens, 2014. Selaserica sororinitida differs by the antennal club, which is longer compared to that of Sel. nitida but shorter in comparison with that of Sel. knucklensis. From both species Sel. sororinitida can also be distinguished by the shape of the aedeagus: the right paramere is in the new species shorter and less narrowed before the apex (lateral view); the phallobase is not widened distally as in Sel. knucklensis.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF8D3071FDA8E81A4D3211A7.taxon	etymology	Etymology The name is derived from the Latin noun ‘ soror ’ (sister) with ‘ nitida ’ from the species Sel. nitida, with reference to the strong morphological similarity with Sel. nitida (noun in nominative case).	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF8D3071FDA8E81A4D3211A7.taxon	materials_examined	Type material Holotype SRI LANKA • ♂; “ X-SR 0670, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33159 ºN, 80.86110 ºE; 1139 m; 17 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK. Paratypes SRI LANKA • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0224, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33082 ºN, 80.86203 ºE; 1108 m; 17 - 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0227, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33082 ºN, 80.86203 ºE; 1108 m; 17 - 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0228, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33082 ºN, 80.86203 ºE; 1108 m; 17 - 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0229, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33082 ºN, 80.86203 ºE; 1108 m; 17 - 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0230, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33082 ºN, 80.86203 ºE; 1108 m; 17 - 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0231, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33082 ºN, 80.86203 ºE; 1108 m; 17 - 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0232, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33082 ºN, 80.86203 ºE; 1108 m; 17 - 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0233, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33082 ºN, 80.86203 ºE; 1108 m; 17 - 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0234, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33082 ºN, 80.86203 ºE; 1108 m; 17 - 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0235, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33082 ºN, 80.86203 ºE; 1108 m; 17 - 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0236, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33082 ºN, 80.86203 ºE; 1108 m; 17 - 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0237, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33082 ºN, 80.86203 ºE; 1108 m; 17 - 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0240, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33082 ºN, 80.86203 ºE; 1108 m; 17 - 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0511, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33082 ºN, 80.86203 ºE; 1108 m; 17 - 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0512, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33082 ºN, 80.86203 ºE; 1108 m; 17 - 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0513, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33082 ºN, 80.86203 ºE; 1108 m; 17 - 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0514, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33082 ºN, 80.86203 ºE; 1108 m; 17 - 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0515, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33082 ºN, 80.86203 ºE; 1108 m; 17 - 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0516, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33082 ºN, 80.86203 ºE; 1108 m; 17 - 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0517, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33082 ºN, 80.86203 ºE; 1108 m; 17 - 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0518, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33082 ºN, 80.86203 ºE; 1108 m; 17 - 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0519, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33082 ºN, 80.86203 ºE; 1108 m; 17 - 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0520, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33082 ºN, 80.86203 ºE; 1108 m; 17 - 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0521, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33082 ºN, 80.86203 ºE; 1108 m; 17 - 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0941, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33082 ºN, 80.86203 ºE; 1108 m; 17 - 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0942, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33082 ºN, 80.86203 ºE; 1108 m; 17 - 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0563, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33616 ºN, 80.85907 ºE; 1197 m; 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0664, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33501 ºN, 80. 85966 ºE; 1171 m; 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0669, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33159 ºN, 80. 86110 ºE; 1139 m; 17 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0915, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33159 ºN, 80. 86110 ºE; 1139 m; 17 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 1135, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33501 ºN, 80. 85966 ºE; 1171 m; 21 - II- 2019; Eberle & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♀; “ X-SR 0186, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33082 ºN, 80.86203 ºE; 1108 m; 20 - II- 2019; Eberle & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♀; “ X- SR 0239, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33082 ºN, 80.86203 ºE; 1108 m; 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♀; “ X-SR 0943, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33082 ºN, 80.86203 ºE; 1108 m; 17 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♀; “ X-SR 2194, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33082 ºN, 80.86203 ºE; 1108 m; 05 - XII- 2020; Ranasinghe & Athukorala leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♀; “ X-SR 2184, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33159 ºN, 80. 86110 ºE; 1139 m; 05 - XII- 2020; Ranasinghe & Athukorala leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♀; “ X-SR 0793, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33501 ºN, 80. 85966 ºE; 1171 m; 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♀; “ X-SR 0795, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33501 ºN, 80. 85966 ºE; 1171 m; 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF8D3071FDA8E81A4D3211A7.taxon	description	Description MEASUREMENTS. Length: 10.2 mm, length of elytra: 7.1 mm, width: 5.6 mm. HABITUS (Fig. 3 H) AND COLOURATION. Body oblong, reddish brown, antenna yellow, dorsal surface shiny and glabrous, ventral surface dull. HEAD. Labroclypeus subtrapezoidal, distinctly wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins weakly convex and strongly convergent to strongly rounded anterior angles, lateral border and ocular canthus producing an indistinct blunt angle, margins weakly reflexed; anterior margin shallowly sinuate medially; surface almost flat, finely and densely punctate, distance between punctures subequal to their diameter, with a few robust setae anteriorly; frontoclypeal suture very feebly impressed and curved medially; smooth area in front of eye approximately three times as wide as long; ocular canthus moderately long and narrow, impunctate, with a single short terminal seta. Frons with fine, sparse punctures, posterior third impunctate, surface glabrous except for a few long setae beside eyes. Eyes large, ratio of diameter / interocular width: 0.9. Antenna yellowish brown, with nine antennomeres; club with four antennomeres, 1.2 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined. Mentum elevated and anteriorly flattened. PRONOTUM. Moderately wide, widest at base, lateral margins in basal half almost straight and weakly convergent, in anterior half weakly convex and distinctly narrowed towards anterior angles, anterior angles moderately produced and moderately sharp; anterior margin moderately produced medially, its marginal line complete; surface moderately densely and finely punctate, glabrous; anterior and lateral borders sparsely setose; basal margin without marginal line. Hypomeron ventrobasally not carinate. Scutellum wide, triangular, with fine and dense punctures, glabrous, apical portion completely impunctate. ELYTRA. Oblong, widest in posterior third, striae distinctly impressed, finely and densely punctate, intervals flat, with fine, sparse punctures, glabrous, only on penultimate lateral interval a few single long, erect setae; epipleural edge fine, ending well anterior to convex external apical angle of elytra; epipleura densely setose; apical border membranous, apex covered with a narrow rim of short microtrichomes. VENTRAL SURFACE. Dull, thorax and metacoxa with large and dense punctures, with long and dense setae; metacoxa glabrous except for a few long setae laterally; each abdominal sternite with evenly distributed fine and dense punctures, and with a transverse row of coarse punctures each bearing a robust seta, other punctures with a short or minute setae, penultimate sternite apically with a shiny smooth but very short chitinous border. Mesosternum between mesocoxae little narrower than maximum width of mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum / metacoxa: 1 / 1.28. Pygidium weakly convex, shiny, finely densely punctate, with long fine setae along the apical margin, otherwise glabrous. LEGS. Moderately wide and shiny; femur with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and moderately densely punctate; metafemur with acute anterior edge, without an adjacent serrated line, anterior longitudinal row of setae complete; posterior ventral margin almost weakly convex, weakly widened in apical half, not serrated, glabrous; posterior dorsal margin smooth, densely shortly setose. Metatibia moderately wide and long, widest at apex, ratio width / length: 1 / 3.3; dorsal margin longitudinally convex, with two groups of spines, basal one at first quarter, apical one at three quarters of metatibial length, without a serrated line; lateral face longitudinally convex, with very sparse and fine punctures, glabrous; ventral margin serrated, with five robust equidistant spines; medial face smooth; apex interiorly near tarsal articulation concavely emarginate. Tarsomeres dorsally impunctate and glabrous, ventrally with dense, long and robust setae; metatarsomeres ventrally with a serrated ridge, beside it without additional strong longitudinal carina; first metatarsomere one third of its length longer than dorsal tibial spur, distinctly shorter than following two tarsomeres combined. Protibia moderately long, tridentate, basal tooth smaller than the two distal ones. Protarsomeres ventrally with long and dense yellow setae forming a setose pad, protarsal claws symmetrical, basal tooth of claws sharply pointed. AEDEAGUS. Fig. 3 E – G. Variation Length: 9.9 – 12.0 mm, length of elytra: 7.1 – 8.1 mm, width: 5.3 – 5.8 mm. Female Length: 12.0 – 12.2 mm, length of elytra: 8.1 – 8.3 mm, width: 6.2 – 6.4 mm. Eyes as smaller than in male; antennal club with three antennomeres and longer than remaining antennomeres combined.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF8D3071FDA8E81A4D3211A7.taxon	distribution	Distribution See Fig. 7 B.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF823074FDBCE92A4D32169F.taxon	description	urn: lsid: zoobank. org: act: 86 E 89148 - 395 A- 4509 - A 223 - 69 CBAC 480 FBE Figs 3 I – L, 7 C, 8 C	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF823074FDBCE92A4D32169F.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis Neoserica pophami sp. nov. differs from the very similar N. kalaarensis Fabrizi & Ahrens, 2014 in shape of parameres: the right paramere is slightly longer, medially distinctly bent (lateral view) and much wider (dorsal view).	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF823074FDBCE92A4D32169F.taxon	etymology	Etymology The new species is named after Mr Sam Popham, founder of the NIFS Arboretum (noun in the genitive case).	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF823074FDBCE92A4D32169F.taxon	materials_examined	Type material Holotype SRI LANKA • ♂; “ X-SR 0346, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum, 7.85783 ºN, 80.67391 ºE, 167 m, 13 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK. Paratypes SRI LANKA • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0332, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85783 ºN, 80.67391 ºE; 167 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0333, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85783 ºN, 80.67391 ºE; 167 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0348, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85783 ºN, 80.67391 ºE; 167 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0353, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85783 ºN, 80.67391 ºE; 167 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0357, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85783 ºN, 80.67391 ºE; 167 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0360, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85783 ºN, 80.67391 ºE; 167 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0365, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85783 ºN, 80.67391 ºE; 167 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0369, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85783 ºN, 80.67391 ºE; 167 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0370, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85783 ºN, 80.67391 ºE; 167 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0380, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85783 ºN, 80.67391 ºE; 167 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0383, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85783 ºN, 80.67391 ºE; 167 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0384, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85783 ºN, 80.67391 ºE; 167 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0388, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85783 ºN, 80.67391 ºE; 167 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0393, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85783 ºN, 80.67391 ºE; 167 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0394, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85783 ºN, 80.67391 ºE; 167 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0401, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85783 ºN, 80.67391 ºE; 167 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 1081, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85783 ºN, 80.67391 ºE; 167 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0471, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85783 ºN, 80.67391 ºE; 167 m; 12 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0473, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85783 ºN, 80.67391 ºE; 167 m; 12 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0474, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85783 ºN, 80.67391 ºE; 167 m; 12 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0475, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85783 ºN, 80.67391 ºE; 167 m; 12 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0488, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 12 - 13 - X _ 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0417, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85796 ºN, 80.67554 ºE; 181 m; 12 - 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0423, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85796 ºN, 80.67554 ºE; 181 m; 12 - 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 1014, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85824 ºN, 182 m; 80.67506 ºE; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♀; “ X- SR 1042, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85783 ºN, 80.67391 ºE; 174 m; 12 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♀; “ X-SR 1056, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85783 ºN, 80.67391 ºE; 174 m; 12 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♀; “ X-SR 1067, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85783 ºN, 80.67391 ºE; 174 m; 12 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♀; “ X-SR 1068, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85783 ºN, 80.67391 ºE; 174 m; 12 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF823074FDBCE92A4D32169F.taxon	description	Description MEASUREMENTS. Length: 6.1 mm, length of elytra: 4.4 mm, width: 3.5 mm. HABITUS (Fig. 3 L) AND COLOURATION. Body oval, light reddish brown, antenna yellow, dorsal completely shiny, except a few setae on head almost glabrous. HEAD. Labroclypeus wide and subtrapezoidal, widest at base, lateral margins convex and convergent anteriorly, anterior angles moderately rounded, anterior margin slightly sinuated medially, all margins moderately reflexed, lateral margins produce an indistinct angle with the ocular canthus; surface weakly convex medially, densely punctate, coarse and fine punctures mixed, with numerous erect setae; frontoclypeal suture indistinctly incised, not elevated and weakly angled medially; smooth area anterior to eye flat, three times as wide as long; ocular canthus moderately long and wide (one third of ocular diameter), finely and densely punctate, with a single terminal seta. Frons with fine, sparse punctures, with a few erect setae beside eyes. Eyes moderately large, ratio diameter / interocular width: 0.75. Antenna with ten antennomeres; club with five antennomeres and straight, as long as the remaining antennomeres combined. Mentum elevated and slightly flattened anteriorly. PRONOTUM. Moderately transverse, widest at base, lateral margins in basal half almost straight and moderately convergent anteriorly, in anterior half weakly convex and evenly convergent anteriorly, anterior angles distinctly produced and moderately acute, posterior angles blunt; anterior margin almost not produced medially, with a robust and complete marginal line, base of pronotum without marginal line; surface finely and densely punctate, punctures glabrous; lateral and lateral anterior margin sparsely setose; hypomeron carinate, not ventrally produced. Scutellum wide, triangular, at apex moderately pointed, with fine, moderately dense punctures, glabrous. ELYTRA. Widest shortly behind the middle, striae weakly impressed, finely and moderately densely punctate, intervals flat, with fine and evenly moderately dense punctures, except a few short setae on lateral intervals glabrous; epipleural edge robust, ending at strongly curved external apical angle of elytra, epipleura densely setose; apical border of elytra with a fine rim of microtrichomes (100 ×). VENTRAL SURFACE. In major part dull, some parts shiny, coarsely and densely punctate, metasternum sparsely covered with fine, short or very minute setae, metacoxa glabrous, with a few long setae laterally; abdominal sternites finely and densely punctuate, with a transverse row of coarse punctures, each bearing a robust seta, the row of punctures on the first visible basal sternite fused to a robust transverse carina bearing the setae, before the carina the fine punctation extremely dense but glabrous. Mesosternum between mesocoxae 1.5 times as wide as the width of mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum / metacoxa: 1 / 1.65. Pygidium strongly convex and shiny, finely and moderately densely punctate, without smooth midline, glabrous except some longer setae along the apical margin. LEGS. Wide and moderately long; femur with two longitudinal row of setae, finely and sparsely punctate; metafemur shiny, behind the posterior longitudinal row of setae punctures finer and slightly denser, anterior margin acute, without serrated line behind anterior edge, posterior margin smooth ventrally, strongly widened, posterior margin finely serrated over its entire length dorsally, with just a few short setae basally. Metatibia wide and flattened, short, widest at apical second third of metatibial length, ratio of width / length: 1 / 2.8, sharply carinate dorsally, with two groups of spines, basal group at first third, apical group at two thirds of metatibial length, basally with a few short robust single spines, on basal quarter beside dorsal margin with a short serrated line; lateral face weakly longitudinally convex, finely, superficially and sparsely punctate, glabrous, widely smooth along the middle; ventral margin finely serrated, with four robust equidistant setae; medial face smooth and glabrous; apex finely serrated, interiorly near tarsal articulation weakly concavely sinuate. Tarsomeres dorsally smooth and glabrous, neither laterally nor dorsally carinate, ventrally robustly densely setose; metatarsomeres with a strongly serrated ridge and a smooth subventral longitudinal carina; first metatarsomere slightly shorter than following two tarsomeres combined and slightly longer than dorsal tibial spur. Protibia short, bidentate; anterior claws symmetrical, basal tooth of both claws bluntly truncate at apex. AEDEAGUS. Fig. 3 I – K. Variation Length: 6.0 – 6.8 mm, length of elytra: 4.3 – 4.7 mm, width: 3.2 – 3.6 mm. Female Length: 6.8 – 7.2 mm, length of elytra: 4.6 – 5.0 mm, width: 3.7 – 4.0 mm. Eyes as large as in male; antennal club shorter little than remaining antennomeres combined, the basal joint of club equals only ⅓ of the length of the club; pygidium weakly convex.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF823074FDBCE92A4D32169F.taxon	distribution	Distribution See Fig. 7 C.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF873077FD4CE8624D2C112F.taxon	description	urn: lsid: zoobank. org: act: B 68147 DB-D 51 A- 4 D 08 - 8 E 56 - 10 D 1 C 194889 A Figs 4 A – D, 7 D, 8 D	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF873077FD4CE8624D2C112F.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis Maladera haniel sp. nov. is in external morphology very similar to M. cervicornis Ranasinghe, Eberle, Benjamin & Ahrens, 2020, both having in common the tubercle on abdominal sternite III. Maladera haniel sp. nov. differs in the setose pronotum, as well as the shape of parameres: the fused parameres are extremely long, as long as the rest of the basal part of the phallobase.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF873077FD4CE8624D2C112F.taxon	etymology	Etymology The new species is named for Suresh Benjamin’s son, Haniel P. Benjamin (noun in apposition).	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF873077FD4CE8624D2C112F.taxon	materials_examined	Type material Holotype SRI LANKA • ♂; “ X-SR 0251, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South, 7.33082 ºN, 80.86203 ºE, 1108 m, 18 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK. Paratypes SRI LANKA • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0245, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South; 7.33082 ºN, 80.86203 ºE; 1108 m; 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0250, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South; 7.33082 ºN, 80.86203 ºE; 1108 m; 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0947, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South; 7.33082 ºN, 80.86203 ºE; 1108 m; 17 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0708, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South; 7.33097 ºN, 80.85934 ºE; 1190 m; 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0552, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South; 7.33501 ºN, 80.85966 ºE; 1171 m; 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0776, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South; 7,3577 N, 80,85006 E; 980 m; 17 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “, X-SR 0781, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South; 7,3577 N, 80,85006 E; 980 m; 17 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0783, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South; 7,3577 N, 80,85006 E; 980 m; 17 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF873077FD4CE8624D2C112F.taxon	description	Description MEASUREMENTS. Length: 8.0 mm, length of elytra: 5.9 mm, width: 4.5 mm. HABITUS (Fig. 4 D) AND COLOURATION. Body short oval, dark brown, antenna yellow, dorsal surface shiny, finely densely setose. HEAD. Labroclypeus short and trapezoidal, wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins strongly convex and convergent to widely rounded anterior angles, lateral border and ocular canthus producing an indistinct blunt angle, margins weakly reflexed, anterior margin almost weakly sinuate medially; surface slightly convex, finely and densely punctate, distance between punctures smaller than their diameter, with numerous erect setae in larger punctures; frontoclypeal suture indistinctly incised and bluntly bent medially; smooth area in front of eye approximately three times as wide as long; ocular canthus long and narrow, minutely and superficially punctate, with a single short terminal seta. Frons with fine, dense punctures, with a few long erect setae in larger punctures, setae on disc less dense. Eyes large, ratio of diameter / interocular width: 0.79. Antenna yellow, with ten antennomeres; club with three antennomeres, as long as remaining antennomeres combined. Mentum elevated and anteriorly flattened. PRONOTUM. Wide, widest at base, lateral margins in basal half straight and weakly convergent, in anterior half weakly convex and narrowed to anterior angles, anterior angles moderately produced and sharp, anterior marginal line fine and complete, anterior margin convexly produced medially; surface finely densely punctate, with moderately dense, short and fine setae and dense long erect setae being directed anteriorly; anterior and lateral borders sparsely setose, basal margin without marginal line; hypomeron ventrobasally carinate and slightly produced ventrally. Scutellum short and wide, triangular, with fine and dense punctures, with short, dense, fine setae. ELYTRA. Short oval, widest shortly behind middle, striae distinctly impressed, finely and densely punctate, intervals weakly convex, with moderately fine, dense punctures and with dense, fine, short setae as well as with sparse long erect setae; epipleural edge fine, ending at the weakly convex external apical angle of elytra, epipleura densely setose; apical border narrowly membranous, apex covered with short microtrichomes. VENTRAL SURFACE. Shiny, thorax and metacoxa with large and dense punctures, sparsely setose, metacoxa with minute adjacent setae in the punctures except for numerous long setae laterally, apical margin weakly convex, without a wide rim of long white microtrichomes; each abdominal sternite, in addition to evenly distributed fine and dense punctures bearing each a fine seta, with a distinct transverse row of coarse punctures each bearing a long and more robust seta, 3 rd sternite with a sharp median tubercle being half as high as sternite length, penultimate sternite apically with a shiny smooth chitinous border, which is a quarter as long as the sternite. Mesosternum between mesocoxae as wide as mesofemur, with a semi-circular ridge bearing robust setae. Ratio of length of metepisternum / metacoxa: 1 / 1.93. Pygidium moderately convex, moderately finely and densely punctate, without smooth midline, punctures with short and dense, adjacent setae as well as with moderately dense, long, erect setae. LEGS. Short and wide; femur with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and densely punctate; metafemur shiny, anterior edge acute, lacking an adjacent serrated line, ventral surface densely punctate and setose, posterior ventral margin straight, only little widened in apical half, finely serrate apically, dorsally not serrated, glabrous. Metatibia short, widest at middle, posteriorly only very little narrowed, ratio width / length: 1 / 2.5, dorsally sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal shortly behind middle, apical one at three quarters of metatibial length, basally beside dorsal margin with two single punctures with serrated margins, each bearing a single robust spine and beside them a longitudinal serrated line; lateral face almost flat, with dense, large punctures and with minute setae in the punctures; ventral margin with five strong spines equidistant from each other, medial face smooth, apex interiorly near tarsal articulation shallowly concave. Meso- and metatarsomeres finely and sparsely punctate but glabrous dorsally, ventrally with sparse, short setae; metatarsomeres ventrally with a strongly serrated ridge, beside which is a strong longitudinal carina; first metatarsomere as long as following two tarsomeres combined and as long as dorsal tibial spur. Protibia short, bidentate. All claws symmetrical, feebly curved and long, with normally developed basal tooth. AEDEAGUS. Fig. 4 A – C. Variation Length: 8.0 – 8.2 mm, length of elytra: 5.5 – 6.1 mm, width: 4.3 – 4.8 mm. Female Unknown.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF873077FD4CE8624D2C112F.taxon	distribution	Distribution See Fig. 7 D.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF84306AFD45E8D04D3017AC.taxon	description	urn: lsid: zoobank. org: act: 35 A 181 EA- 5701 - 48 E 5 - 9 A 1 F- 75906 A 829611 Figs 4 E – H, 7 E, 8 D	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF84306AFD45E8D04D3017AC.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis Maladera kishi sp. nov. is in external morphology very similar to M. haniel sp. nov. and differs by the lack of a tubercle on abdominal sternite III as well as by the shape of parameres: the fused parameres (distal aedeagal process) is simply pointed and not bifurcate, while the lateral process on the left side is more robust.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF84306AFD45E8D04D3017AC.taxon	etymology	Etymology The new species is named for Suresh Benjamin’s daughter, Kishi P. L. Benjamin (noun in apposition).	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF84306AFD45E8D04D3017AC.taxon	materials_examined	Type material Holotype SRI LANKA • ♂; “ X-SR 0724, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South, 7.3389 ºN, 80.8510 ºE, 1192 m, 18 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK. Paratypes SRI LANKA • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0730, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South, 7.3389 ºN, 80.8510 ºE, 1192 m, 18 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0731, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South, 7.3389 ºN, 80.8510 ºE, 1192 m, 18 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0736, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South, 7.3389 ºN, 80.8510 ºE, 1192 m, 18 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0737, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South, 7.3389 ºN, 80.8510 ºE, 1192 m, 18 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0738, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South, 7.3389 ºN, 80.8510 ºE, 1192 m, 18 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0739, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South, 7.3389 ºN, 80.8510 ºE, 1192 m, 18 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0740, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South, 7.3389 ºN, 80.8510 ºE, 1192 m, 18 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0741, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South, 7.3389 ºN, 80.8510 ºE, 1192 m, 18 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0742, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South, 7.3389 ºN, 80.8510 ºE, 1192 m, 18 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0743, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South, 7.3389 ºN, 80.8510 ºE, 1192 m, 18 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0749, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South, 7.3389 ºN, 80.8510 ºE, 1192 m, 18 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0750, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South, 7.3389 ºN, 80.8510 ºE, 1192 m, 18 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0697, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South, 7.3389 ºN, 80.8510 ºE, 1192 m, 18 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0701, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South, 7.3389 ºN, 80.8510 ºE, 1192 m, 18 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0924, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South, 7.3389 ºN, 80.8510 ºE, 1192 m, 18 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0925, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South, 7.3389 ºN, 80.8510 ºE, 1192 m, 18 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0926, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South, 7.3389 ºN, 80.8510 ºE, 1192 m, 18 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0927, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South, 7.3389 ºN, 80.8510 ºE, 1192 m, 18 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0929, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South, 7.3389 ºN, 80.8510 ºE, 1192 m, 18 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0565, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South, 7.33616 ºN, 80.85907 ºE; 1197 m; 17 - 18 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0566, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South, 7.33616 ºN, 80.85907 ºE; 1197 m; 17 - 18 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0936, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South, 7.33616 ºN, 80.85907 ºE; 1197 m; 18 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0546, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South, 7.33501 ºN, 80.85966 ºE; 1171 m; 17 - 18 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0548, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South, 7.33501 ºN, 80.85966 ºE; 1171 m; 18 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♀; “ X-SR 0545, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South, 7.33501 ºN, 80.85966 ºE; 1171 m; 18 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♀; “ X-SR 0567, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South, 7.33616 ºN, 80.85907 ºE; 1197 m; 18 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♀; “ X-SR 0700, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South, 7.3389 ºN, 80.8510 ºE, 1192 m; 17 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♀; “ X-SR 0725, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South, 7.3389 ºN, 80.8510 ºE, 1192 m; 18 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♀; “ X-SR 0799, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South, 7.33501 ºN, 80.85966 ºE; 1171 m; 18 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♀; “ X-SR 0800, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South, 7.33501 ºN, 80.85966 ºE; 1171 m; 18 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF84306AFD45E8D04D3017AC.taxon	description	Description MEASUREMENTS. Length: 9.2 mm, length of elytra: 6.6 mm, width: 5.2 mm. HABITUS (Fig. 4 H) AND COLOURATION. Body short oval, dark brown, antenna yellow, dorsal surface shiny, finely densely setose. HEAD. Labroclypeus short and trapezoidal, wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins strongly convex and convergent to widely rounded anterior angles, lateral border and ocular canthus producing an indistinct blunt angle, margins weakly reflexed, anterior margin not sinuate medially; surface slightly convex, finely and densely punctate, distance between punctures smaller than their diameter, with numerous erect setae in larger punctures; frontoclypeal suture indistinctly incised and bluntly bent medially; smooth area in front of eye approximately three times as wide as long; ocular canthus long and narrow, minutely and superficially punctate, without a short terminal seta. Frons with fine, dense punctures, with a few long erect setae in larger punctures. Eyes large, ratio of diameter / interocular width: 0.81. Antenna yellow, with ten antennomeres; club with three antennomeres, little longer than remaining antennomeres combined. Mentum elevated and anteriorly flattened. PRONOTUM. Wide, widest at base, lateral margins in basal half straight and weakly convergent, in anterior half weakly convex and narrowed to anterior angles, anterior angles moderately produced and sharp, anterior marginal line fine and complete, anterior margin convexly produced medially; surface finely densely punctate, with moderately dense, short and fine setae and dense long erect setae being directed anteriorly; anterior and lateral borders sparsely setose, basal margin without marginal line; hypomeron ventrobasally carinate and slightly produced ventrally. Scutellum short and wide, triangular, with fine and dense punctures, with short, dense, fine setae. ELYTRA. Short oval, widest shortly behind middle, striae distinctly impressed, finely and densely punctate, intervals weakly convex, with moderately fine, dense punctures and with dense, fine, short setae as well as with sparse long erect setae; epipleural edge fine, ending at the weakly convex external apical angle of elytra, epipleura densely setose; apical border narrowly membranous, apex covered with short microtrichomes. VENTRAL SURFACE. Shiny, thorax and metacoxa with large and dense punctures, sparsely setose, metacoxa with minute adjacent setae in the punctures except for numerous long setae laterally, apical margin weakly convex, without a wide rim of long white microtrichomes; each abdominal sternite, in addition to evenly distributed fine and dense punctures bearing each a fine seta, with a distinct transverse row of coarse punctures each bearing a long and more robust seta, penultimate sternite apically with a shiny smooth chitinous border, which is a quarter as long as the sternite. Mesosternum between mesocoxae as wide as mesofemur, with a semi-circular ridge bearing robust setae. Ratio of length of metepisternum / metacoxa: 1 / 1.8. Pygidium moderately convex, moderately finely and densely punctate, without smooth midline, punctures with short and dense, adjacent setae as well as with dense, long, erect setae. LEGS. Short and wide; femur with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and densely punctate; metafemur shiny, anterior edge acute, lacking an adjacent serrated line, ventral surface densely punctate and setose, posterior ventral margin straight, only little widened in apical half, finely indistinctly serrate apically, dorsally not serrated, glabrous. Metatibia short, widest at middle, posteriorly only very slightly narrowed, ratio width / length: 1 / 2.4, dorsally sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal well behind middle, apical one at four fifths of metatibial length, basally beside dorsal margin with two single punctures with serrated margins, each bearing a single robust spine and beside them a longitudinal serrated line; lateral face almost flat, with dense, large punctures and with fine setae in the punctures; ventral margin with five strong spines equidistant from each other, medial face smooth, apex interiorly near tarsal articulation shallowly concave. Meso- and metatarsomeres finely and sparsely punctate but glabrous dorsally, ventrally with sparse, short setae; metatarsomeres ventrally with a strongly serrated ridge, beside which is a strong longitudinal carina; first metatarsomere little shorter than following two tarsomeres combined and as long as dorsal tibial spur. Protibia short, bidentate. All claws symmetrical, feebly curved and long, with normally developed basal tooth. AEDEAGUS. Fig. 4 E – G. Variation Length: 8.9 – 9.2 mm, length of elytra: 6.6 – 7.1 mm, width: 5.1 – 5.6 mm. Female Length: 9.0 – 9.3 mm, length of elytra: 7.0 – 7.5 mm, width: 5.4 – 5.7 mm. Eyes as large as in male; antennal club little shorter than the remaining antennomeres combined.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF84306AFD45E8D04D3017AC.taxon	distribution	Distribution See Fig. 7 E.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF99306CFD4FEF5F4D3517AC.taxon	description	urn: lsid: zoobank. org: act: 0 FAD 16 C 9 - 9434 - 4 A 0 F- 9 D 11 - 42 A 464 F 3 F 2 BB Figs 4 I – L, 7 F, 8 E	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF99306CFD4FEF5F4D3517AC.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis The new species is very similar to M. pubescens (Arrow, 1916) and M. dambullana sp. nov. as well as M. bisornata Fabrizi & Ahrens, 2014. Maladera windy sp. nov. differs from the first two by the distal aedeagal lobe (i. e., the fused parameres) having a basal lateral lobe with grater-like surface, the ventral process of phallobase is shorter, less pointed and not mesally extended; from M. bisornata, M. windy sp. nov. differs by the longer and slightly reflexed distal aedeagal lobe (i. e., the fused parameres).	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF99306CFD4FEF5F4D3517AC.taxon	etymology	Etymology The name of the new species is derived from ‘ Windy Holiday Bungalow’, where the research group stayed during the second expedition in Knuckles region (noun in apposition).	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF99306CFD4FEF5F4D3517AC.taxon	materials_examined	Type material Holotype SRI LANKA • ♂; “ X-SR 0769, Sri Lanka, Deenston, Knuckles South, 7.35771 ºN, 80.85006 ºE, 980 m, 17 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Light sheet ”; ZFMK. Paratypes SRI LANKA • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0757, Sri Lanka, Deenston, Knuckles South, 7.35771 ºN, 80.85006 ºE, 980 m, 17 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0790, Sri Lanka, Deenston, Knuckles South, 7.35771 ºN, 80.85006 ºE, 980 m, 17 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0580, Sri Lanka, Deenston, Knuckles South, 7.35771 ºN, 80.85006 ºE, 980 m, 16 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♀; “ X-SR 0572, Sri Lanka, Deenston, Knuckles South, 7.35771 ºN, 80.85006 ºE, 980 m, 16 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♀; “ X-SR 0574, Sri Lanka, Deenston, Knuckles South, 7.35771 ºN, 80.85006 ºE, 980 m, 16 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♀; “ X-SR 0575, Sri Lanka, Deenston, Knuckles South, 7.35771 ºN, 80.85006 ºE, 980 m, 16 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Light sheet ”; ZFMK.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF99306CFD4FEF5F4D3517AC.taxon	description	Description MEASUREMENTS. Length: 6.0 mm, length of elytra: 4.1 mm, width: 3.4 mm. HABITUS (Fig. 4 L) AND COLOURATION. Body short oval, yellowish brown, antenna yellow, dorsal surface shiny, densely finely setose. HEAD. Labroclypeus subtrapezoidal, distinctly wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins weakly convex and strongly convergent to widely rounded anterior angles, lateral border and ocular canthus producing an indistinct blunt angle, margins moderately reflexed, anteriorly distinctly sinuate medially; surface flat, finely and densely punctate, distance between punctures smaller than their diameter, with numerous erect setae in larger punctures; frontoclypeal suture fine and angled medially; smooth area in front of eye approximately twice as wide as long; ocular canthus short and narrow, finely and densely punctate, with a single short terminal seta. Frons with fine, dense punctures, with dense short and sparse long erect setae. Eyes large, ratio of diameter / interocular width: 0.85. Antenna yellow, with ten antennomeres; club with three antennomeres, as long as remaining antennomeres combined. Mentum elevated and anteriorly flattened. PRONOTUM. Moderately wide, widest at base, lateral margins weakly convex and evenly narrowed anteriorly, anterior angles strongly produced and sharp, anterior marginal line fine and complete, anterior margin weakly produced medially; surface finely and densely punctate, with dense moderately long setae being bent posteriorly on entire disc and with a few sparse longer setae being directed anteriorly; anterior and lateral borders setose, basal margin without marginal line; hypomeron ventrobasally carinate and slightly produced ventrally. Scutellum short and wide, triangular, with fine and dense punctures, with fine and dense adjacent setae. ELYTRA. Short oval, widest shortly behind middle, striae indistinctly impressed, finely and densely punctate, intervals flat, with fine, very dense punctures, with numerous fine setae similar to those of the pronotum and a few sparser ones being longer and erect or directed anteriorly, in particular on lateral intervals; epipleural edge fine, ending at the weakly convex external apical angle of elytra, epipleura densely setose; apical border narrowly membranous, apex covered with short microtrichomes. VENTRAL SURFACE. Moderately shiny, thorax and metacoxa with large and dense punctures, densely setose, metacoxa glabrous except for numerous long setae laterally; each abdominal sternite, in addition to evenly distributed fine and dense punctures bearing each a fine seta, with a distinct transverse row of coarse punctures each bearing a long and more robust seta, penultimate sternite apically with a shiny smooth chitinous border, which is a quarter as long as the sternite. Mesosternum between mesocoxae as wide as mesofemur, with a semi-circular ridge bearing robust setae. Ratio of length of metepisternum / metacoxa: 1 / 1.9. Pygidium moderately convex, finely and very densely punctate, without smooth midline, punctures with short and moderately dense, adjacent setae, along the apical margin with a few long erect setae. LEGS. Short and wide; femur with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and densely punctate, densely setose; metafemur shiny, anterior edge acute, lacking an adjacent serrated line, ventral surface densely punctate and setose, posterior ventral margin straight, only little widened in apical half and very indistinctly serrate apically, dorsally not serrated, glabrous. Metatibia short, widest at middle, posteriorly slightly narrowed, ratio width / length: 1 / 2.6, dorsally sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal one shortly behind middle, apical one at four fifths of metatibial length, basally beside dorsal margin with two single punctures with serrated margins, each bearing single spines and beside them a longitudinal serrated line; lateral face almost flat, with dense, fine punctures and with minute setae; ventral margin with five strong spines equidistant from each other, medial face smooth, apex interiorly near tarsal articulation shallowly truncate. Meso- and metatarsomeres finely and densely punctate and setose dorsally, ventrally with sparse, short setae; metatarsomeres ventrally with a strongly serrated ridge, beside which is a strong longitudinal carina; first metatarsomere little shorter than following two tarsomeres combined and a little longer than dorsal tibial spur. Protibia short, bidentate. All claws symmetrical, feebly curved and long, with normally developed basal tooth. AEDEAGUS. Fig. 4 I – K. Variation Length: 6.0 – 6.4 mm, length of elytra: 4.0 – 4.6 mm, width: 3.2 – 3.4 mm. Female Length: 6.5 – 6.8 mm, length of elytra: 4.6 – 5.0 mm, width: 3.6 – 3.7 mm. Eyes slightly smaller than in male; antennal club little shorter than the remaining antennomeres combined.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF99306CFD4FEF5F4D3517AC.taxon	distribution	Distribution See Fig. 7 F.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF9F306EFD9FEF5F4D2C164F.taxon	description	urn: lsid: zoobank. org: act: 2393163 E- 8310 - 4991 - A 992 - 9 E 16525 ABAF 3 Figs 5 A – D, 7 G, 8 F	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF9F306EFD9FEF5F4D2C164F.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis Maladera karunaratnae sp. nov. is in external appearance similar to M. anderssoni Fabrizi & Ahrens, 2014 and M. romanoi Fabrizi & Ahrens, 2014, however, the aedeagus has no ventral hook (lateral view), just a distinct ventral convexity at middle.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF9F306EFD9FEF5F4D2C164F.taxon	etymology	Etymology The new species is named after Prof. Inoka Karunaratne (University of Peradeniya), in gratitude for her kind support for this project (noun in the genitive case).	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF9F306EFD9FEF5F4D2C164F.taxon	materials_examined	Type material Holotype SRI LANKA • ♂; “ X-SR 1030, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum, 7.85796 ºN, 80.67554 ºE; 181 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK. Paratypes SRI LANKA • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 1010, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum, 7.85897 ºN, 80.67533 ºE; 203 m; 11 - 12 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 1087, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum, 7.85897 ºN, 80.67533 ºE; 203 m; 11 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 1025, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum, 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 12 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 1029, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum, 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 12 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 1113, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum, 7.85796 ºN, 80.67554 ºE; 181 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0887, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana; 7.54976 ºN, 80.75212 ºE; 902 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♀; “ X-SR 1088, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum, 7.85897 ºN, 80.67533 ºE; 203 m; 11 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF9F306EFD9FEF5F4D2C164F.taxon	description	Description MEASUREMENTS. Length: 5.6 mm, length of elytra: 4.2 mm, width: 3.2 mm. HABITUS (Fig. 5 D) AND COLOURATION. Body oval, brown, antenna, ventral side, and legs yellowish, dorsal surface with iridescent shine, densely shortly setose, elytra with numerous single erect setae. HEAD. Labroclypeus subtrapezoidal, wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins weakly convex and convergent to widely rounded anterior angles, lateral border and ocular canthus producing an blunt angle, margins moderately reflexed; anterior margin weakly emarginate medially; surface shiny, flat, finely and coarsely, densely punctate, with a few erect setae in larger punctures and minute setae in the remaining punctures; frontoclypeal suture finely incised and weakly curved; smooth area in front of eye three times as wide as long; ocular canthus long and narrow, sparsely finely punctate, with a single short terminal seta. Frons with toment and iridescent shine, with fine, dense punctures and short, erect setae in punctures, with a few long, erect setae on disc and beside eyes. Eyes extremely large, ratio of diameter / interocular width: 1.1. Antenna yellow, with ten antennomeres; club with three antennomeres, straight, 1.2 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined. Mentum elevated and anteriorly flattened. PRONOTUM. Narrow, widest at base, lateral margins weakly convex and convergent anteriorly; anterior angles moderately produced and sharp; anterior marginal line fine and complete, anterior margin weakly produced medially; surface finely and densely punctate, with short erect setae in punctures, and a numerous longer erect setae in anterior part; anterior and lateral borders sparsely setose, basal margin without marginal line; hypomeron ventrobasally carinate and slightly produced ventrally. Scutellum short and wide, triangular, with fine and dense punctures and setae as in pronotum. ELYTRA. Short oval, widest at middle, striae indistinctly impressed, finely and densely punctate, intervals flat, with fine, dense punctures, with short setae in punctures; odd intervals with numerous longer, erect setae around which the smaller setae are lacking circularly; epipleural edge fine, ending at the weakly convex external apical angle of elytra, epipleura densely setose; apical border membranous, apex covered with a rim of short microtrichomes. VENTRAL SURFACE. Moderately shiny, thorax and metacoxa with large and dense punctures, densely shortly setose; metacoxa with numerous long setae laterally; each abdominal sternite, in addition to evenly distributed fine and dense punctures bearing each a fine seta, with a distinct transverse row of coarse punctures each bearing a long and more robust seta, penultimate sternite apically with a narrow, shiny smooth chitinous border. Mesosternum between mesocoxae as wide as mesofemur, with a semicircular ridge bearing robust setae. Ratio of length of metepisternum / metacoxa: 1 / 2.28. Pygidium weakly convex, finely densely punctate, with short dense setae, and numerous long setae on apical half. LEGS. Short and wide; femur with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and densely punctate, densely setose; metafemur shiny, anterior edge acute, lacking an adjacent serrated line, ventral surface densely punctate and setose; posterior ventral margin straight, strongly widened in apical half and very indistinctly serrate apically; posterior dorsal margin not serrated, densely setose. Metatibia short, widest at middle, posteriorly slightly narrowed, ratio width / length: 1 / 2.4, dorsally sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal one shortly behind middle, apical one at four fifths of metatibial length, basally beside dorsal margin with two single punctures with serrated margins, each bearing single spines and a longitudinal serrated line in basal half; lateral face longitudinal convex, with dense, fine punctures and with fine white setae in punctures; ventral margin finely serrate, with five strong spines equidistant from each other; medial face smooth, apex interiorly near tarsal articulation shallowly truncate. Meso- and metatarsomeres dorsally densely and finely punctate, and densely setose, ventrally with robust, dense, short setae; metatarsomeres with a strongly serrated ventral ridge, with a strong longitudinal carina beside it; first metatarsomere as long as two following tarsomeres combined and as long as dorsal tibial spur. Protibia short, bidentate. All claws symmetrical, feebly curved and long, with normally developed basal tooth, protarsal claws asymmetric, basal tooth of inner claw widened and bluntly truncate at apex. AEDEAGUS. Fig. 5 A – C. Variation Length: 5.6 – 6.0 mm, length of elytra: 4.0 – 4.5 mm, width: 2.8 – 3.4 mm. Female Length: 7.0 mm, length of elytra: 5.4 mm, width: 3.6 mm. Eyes as large as in male; antennal club little shorter than remaining antennomeres combined.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF9F306EFD9FEF5F4D2C164F.taxon	distribution	Distribution See Fig. 7 G.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF9D3060FDA5EF704D2C1355.taxon	description	urn: lsid: zoobank. org: act: EA 7 F 3 C 4 B- 534 E- 40 E 5 - ADC 5 - A 5 FE 770 CECEE Figs 5 E – H, 7 H, 8 G	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF9D3060FDA5EF704D2C1355.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis Maladera hiyarensis sp. nov. is in external appearance similar to M. anderssoni Fabrizi & Ahrens, 2014 and M. romanoi Fabrizi & Ahrens, 2014 being, however, stouter in shape and larger, the aedeagus has the distal part longer and narrower. The aedeagus is also rather similar to that of M. badullana Fabrizi & Ahrens, 2014, but the ventral convexity is in this new species less pronounced and the distal portion is longer and reflexed (lateral view).	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF9D3060FDA5EF704D2C1355.taxon	etymology	Etymology The new species is named after its type locality ‘ Hiyare’ (adjective in the nominative singular).	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF9D3060FDA5EF704D2C1355.taxon	materials_examined	Type material Holotype SRI LANKA • ♂; “ X-SR 1946, Sri Lanka, Galle District, Hiyare FR; 6.05959 ºN, 80.31503 ºE; 116 m; 01 - VII- 2020; Benjamin & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF9D3060FDA5EF704D2C1355.taxon	description	Description MEASUREMENTS. Length: 6.8 mm, length of elytra: 4.8 mm, width: 4.1 mm. HABITUS (Fig. 5 H) AND COLOURATION. Body oval, reddish brown, frons, disc of pronotum and a few spots on elytra dark brown, antenna and legs yellow, dorsal surface with iridescent shine, densely and shortly setose, elytra with numerous single erect setae. HEAD. Labroclypeus subtrapezoidal, little wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins weakly convex and strongly convergent to widely rounded anterior angles, lateral border and ocular canthus producing an indistinct blunt angle, margins moderately reflexed; anterior margin very weakly emarginate medially; surface shiny, weakly elevated medially, finely and densely punctate, distance between punctures equal their diameter, with a few erect setae in larger punctures; frontoclypeal suture fine and weakly angled medially; smooth area in front of eye approximately twice as wide as long; ocular canthus moderately long and narrow, impunctate, with a single short terminal seta. Frons with toment and iridescent shine, with fine, dense punctures and minute setae in punctures, with a few long, erect setae on disc and beside eyes. Eyes large, ratio of diameter / interocular width: 0.79. Antenna yellow, with ten antennomeres; club with three antennomeres, straight, 1.1 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined. Mentum elevated and anteriorly flattened. PRONOTUM. Moderately wide, widest at base, lateral margins in basal half straight and convergent, in anterior half weakly convex and convergent anteriorly; anterior angles moderately produced and sharp; anterior marginal line fine and complete, anterior margin weakly produced medially; surface finely and densely punctate, with short setae in punctures, otherwise glabrous; anterior and lateral borders sparsely setose, basal margin without marginal line; hypomeron ventrobasally carinate and slightly produced ventrally. Scutellum short and wide, triangular, with fine and dense punctures, along midline narrowly impunctate. ELYTRA. Short oval, widest at posterior third, striae indistinctly impressed, finely and densely punctate, intervals flat, with fine, dense punctures, with short setae in punctures; odd intervals with a few impunctate dots which are darker and each bear at centre an erect seta; epipleural edge fine, ending at the weakly convex external apical angle of elytra, epipleura densely setose; apical border membranous, apex covered with a rim of short microtrichomes. VENTRAL SURFACE. Moderately shiny, thorax and metacoxa with large and dense punctures, densely shortly setose; metacoxa with numerous long setae laterally; each abdominal sternite, in addition to evenly distributed fine and dense punctures bearing each a fine seta, with a distinct transverse row of coarse punctures each bearing a long and more robust seta, penultimate sternite apically with a narrow, shiny smooth chitinous border. Mesosternum between mesocoxae as wide as mesofemur, with a semicircular ridge bearing robust setae. Ratio of length of metepisternum / metacoxa: 1 / 2.24. Pygidium weakly convex, finely densely punctate, with short dense setae, and numerous long setae along apical margin. LEGS. Short and wide; femur with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and densely punctate, densely setose; metafemur shiny, anterior edge acute, lacking an adjacent serrated line, ventral surface densely punctate and setose; posterior ventral margin straight, strongly widened in apical half and very indistinctly serrate apically; posterior dorsal margin not serrated, densely setose. Metatibia short, widest at middle, posteriorly slightly narrowed, ratio width / length: 1 / 2.4, dorsally sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal one shortly behind middle, apical one at four fifths of metatibial length, basally beside dorsal margin with two single punctures with serrated margins, each bearing single spines and beside them a longitudinal serrated line; lateral face longitudinal convex, with dense, fine punctures and with short setae in punctures; ventral margin finely serrate, with five strong spines equidistant from each other; medial face smooth, apex interiorly near tarsal articulation shallowly truncate. Meso- and metatarsomeres dorsally sparsely and very finely punctate and with minute setae in punctures, ventrally with robust, dense, short setae; metatarsomeres with a strongly serrated ventral ridge, beside it with a strong longitudinal carina; first metatarsomere as long as two following tarsomeres combined and as long as dorsal tibial spur. Protibia short, bidentate. All claws symmetrical, feebly curved and long, with normally developed basal tooth, distal protarsomeres lacking in holotype. AEDEAGUS. Fig. 5 E – G. Female Unknown.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF9D3060FDA5EF704D2C1355.taxon	distribution	Distribution See Fig. 7 H.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF933064FDAAEA794D3811A7.taxon	description	urn: lsid: zoobank. org: act: 0605777 D-D 598 - 4210 - BC 74 - 4534 D 46 DC 2 A 2 Figs 6 A – D, 7 I, 8 H	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF933064FDAAEA794D3811A7.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis The new species is very similar to M. pubescens (Arrow, 1916). Maladera dambullana sp. nov. differs from M. pubescens by the shape of the aedeagus: the ventral distal lobe (i. e., the fused parameres) is not extended mesally but constant in width over its entire length.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF933064FDAAEA794D3811A7.taxon	etymology	Etymology The name of the new species is derived from its type locality ‘ Dambulla’ (adjective in nominative case singular).	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF933064FDAAEA794D3811A7.taxon	materials_examined	Type material Holotype SRI LANKA • ♂; “ X-SR 0269, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum, 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE, 174 m, 13 - X- 2019, Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe, Black light ”; ZFMK. Paratypes SRI LANKA • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0254, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0257, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0258, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0259, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0262, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0264, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0265, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0266, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0267, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0271, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0272, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0279, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0281, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0282, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0283, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0284, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0285, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0286, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0292, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0297, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0300, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0486, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0489, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0490, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0491, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0501, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0507, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0510, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 1049, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0341, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85783 ºN, 80.67391 ºE; 167 m; 12 - 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0363, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85783 ºN, 80.67391 ºE; 167 m; 12 - 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0414, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85796 ºN, 80.67554 ºE; 181 m; 12 - 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ SR 0301, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85824 ºN, 80.67506 ºE; 182 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0985, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85897 ºN, 80.67533 ºE; 203 m; 11 - 12 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0209, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85907 ºN, 80.67587 ºE; 160 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0210, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85907 ºN, 80.67587 ºE; 160 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♀; “ X-SR 0261, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♀; “ X- SR 0263, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF933064FDAAEA794D3811A7.taxon	description	Description MEASUREMENTS. Length: 5.6 mm, length of elytra: 4.1 mm, width: 3.1 mm. HABITUS (Fig. 6 D) AND COLOURATION. Body short oval, yellowish brown, antenna yellow, dorsal surface shiny, densely finely setose. HEAD. Labroclypeus subtrapezoidal, distinctly wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins weakly convex and strongly convergent to widely rounded anterior angles, lateral border and ocular canthus producing an indistinct blunt angle, margins weakly reflexed, anteriorly shallowly sinuate medially; surface slightly convex, finely and densely punctate, distance between punctures smaller than their diameter, with numerous erect setae in larger punctures; frontoclypeal suture almost invisible and strongly angled medially; smooth area in front of eye approximately twice as wide as long; ocular canthus short and narrow, minutely and superficially punctate, with a single short terminal seta. Frons with fine, dense punctures, with long erect setae in the punctures. Eyes large, ratio of diameter / interocular width: 0.85. Antenna yellow, with ten antennomeres; club with three antennomeres, as long as remaining antennomeres combined. Mentum elevated and anteriorly flattened. PRONOTUM. Moderately wide, widest at base, lateral margins weakly convex and evenly narrowed to the anterior third, anteriorly stronger convex, anterior angles strongly produced and sharp, anterior marginal line fine but complete medially, anterior margin weakly produced medially; surface finely and densely punctate, with dense moderately long setae being bent posteriorly on entire disc and with a few sparse longer setae being directed anteriorly; anterior and lateral borders setose, basal margin without marginal line; hypomeron ventrobasally carinate and slightly produced ventrally. Scutellum short and wide, triangular, with fine and dense punctures, with fine and dense adjacent setae. ELYTRA. Short oval, widest shortly behind middle, striae indistinctly impressed, finely and densely punctate, intervals flat, with fine, very dense punctures, with numerous fine setae similar to those of the pronotum and a few sparser ones being longer and erect or directed anteriorly, in particular on lateral intervals; epipleural edge fine, ending at the weakly convex external apical angle of elytra, epipleura densely setose; apical border narrowly membranous, apex covered with short microtrichomes. VENTRAL SURFACE. Moderately shiny, thorax and metacoxa with large and dense punctures, densely setose, metacoxa glabrous except for numerous long setae laterally; each abdominal sternite, in addition to evenly distributed fine and dense punctures bearing each a fine seta, with a distinct transverse row of coarse punctures each bearing a long and more robust seta, penultimate sternite apically with a shiny smooth chitinous border, which is a quarter as long as the sternite. Mesosternum between mesocoxae as wide as mesofemur, with a semi-circular ridge bearing robust setae. Ratio of length of metepisternum / metacoxa: 1 / 1.93. Pygidium moderately convex, finely and very densely punctate, without smooth midline, punctures with short and moderately dense, adjacent setae, along the apical margin with a few long erect setae. LEGS. Short and wide; femur with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and densely punctate, densely setose; metafemur shiny, anterior edge acute, lacking an adjacent serrated line, ventral surface densely punctate and setose, posterior ventral margin straight, only little widened in apical half and very indistinctly serrate apically, dorsally not serrated, glabrous. Metatibia short, widest at middle, posteriorly slightly narrowed, ratio width / length: 1 / 2.18, dorsally sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal one at middle, apical one at three quarters of metatibial length, basally beside dorsal margin with two single punctures with serrated margins, each bearing single spines and beside them a longitudinal serrated line; lateral face almost flat, with dense, fine punctures and with minute setae in the punctures; ventral margin with five strong spines equidistant from each other, medial face smooth, apex interiorly near tarsal articulation shallowly truncate. Meso- and metatarsomeres finely and densely punctate and setose dorsally, ventrally with sparse, short setae; metatarsomeres ventrally with a strongly serrated ridge, beside which is a strong longitudinal carina; first metatarsomere as long as following two tarsomeres combined and a little longer than dorsal tibial spur. Protibia short, bidentate. All claws symmetrical, feebly curved and long, with normally developed basal tooth. AEDEAGUS. Fig. 6 A – C. Variation Length: 5.6 – 6.7 mm, length of elytra: 4.1 – 4.6 mm, width: 3.1 – 3.5 mm. Female Length: 6.0 – 6.5 mm, length of elytra: 4.7 – 4.9 mm, width: 3.7 – 3.8 mm. Eyes slightly smaller than in male; antennal club little shorter than remaining antennomeres combined.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF933064FDAAEA794D3811A7.taxon	distribution	Distribution See Fig. 7 I.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF973067FDA5E9684D3A1332.taxon	description	urn: lsid: zoobank. org: act: 054 FA 7 C 8 - DD 22 - 49 C 4 - 8 C 43 - B 41 E 610 ADDF 6 Figs 6 E – H, 7 J, 8 I	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF973067FDA5E9684D3A1332.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis Maladera deenstana sp. nov. is in external shape and shape of aedeagus similar to M. weligamana (Brenske, 1898). The new species differs from M. weligamana by the mesally more compressed aedeagus and having the distal part less narrowed towards apex (all lateral view); the apical part is less narrowed a quarter before apex than in M. weligamana (dorsal view).	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF973067FDA5E9684D3A1332.taxon	etymology	Etymology The new species is named after its type locality ‘ Deenston’ (adjective in the nominative singular).	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF973067FDA5E9684D3A1332.taxon	materials_examined	Type material Holotype SRI LANKA • ♂; “ X-SR 0187, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South; 7.330824 ºN, 80.862032 ºE; 1108 m; 20 - II- 2019; Eberle and Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF973067FDA5E9684D3A1332.taxon	description	Description MEASUREMENTS. Length: 8.2 mm, length of elytra: 6.1 mm, width: 4.9 mm. HABITUS (Fig. 6 H) AND COLOURATION. Body oval, dark brown, antenna yellow, dorsal surface dull, densely minutely setose, elytra with moderately dense, short setae. HEAD. Labroclypeus subtrapezoidal, distinctly wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins weakly convex and strongly convergent to widely rounded anterior angles, lateral border and ocular canthus producing an indistinct blunt angle, margins moderately reflexed, anteriorly distinctly emarginate medially; surface shiny, convexly elevated medially, finely and densely punctate, distance between punctures equal their diameter, with a few erect setae; frontoclypeal suture fine and weakly angled medially; smooth area in front of eye approximately twice as wide as long; ocular canthus short and narrow, finely and densely punctate, with a single short terminal seta. Frons dull, with fine, irregularly sparse punctures, with a few longer, adpressed setae on disc and beside eyes. Eyes moderately large, ratio of diameter / interocular width: 0.66. Antenna yellow, with ten antennomeres; club with three antennomeres, little shorter than remaining antennomeres combined. Mentum elevated and anteriorly flattened. PRONOTUM. Moderately wide, widest at base, lateral margins weakly convex and evenly narrowed anteriorly, anterior angles moderately produced and moderately sharp, anterior marginal line fine and complete, anterior margin weakly produced medially; surface finely and densely punctate, with minute setae in punctures, otherwise glabrous; anterior and lateral borders sparsely setose, basal margin without marginal line; hypomeron ventrobasally carinate and slightly produced ventrally. Scutellum short and wide, triangular, with fine and dense punctures, along midline impunctate. ELYTRA. Short oval, widest at posterior third, striae indistinctly impressed, finely and densely punctate, intervals flat, with fine, dense punctures, with minute setae in punctures and a few moderately dense, short setae on lateral intervals and posterior half; epipleural edge fine, ending at the weakly convex external apical angle of elytra, epipleura densely setose; apical border membranous, apex covered with a rim of short microtrichomes. VENTRAL SURFACE. Moderately shiny, thorax and metacoxa with large and dense punctures, densely minutely setose, metacoxa with numerous long setae laterally; each abdominal sternite, in addition to evenly distributed fine and dense punctures bearing each a fine seta, with a distinct transverse row of coarse punctures each bearing a long and more robust seta, penultimate sternite apically with a narrow, shiny smooth chitinous border. Mesosternum between mesocoxae as wide as mesofemur, with a semicircular ridge bearing robust setae. Ratio of length of metepisternum / metacoxa: 1 / 2.0. Pygidium lacking in holotype. LEGS. Short and wide; femur with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and densely punctate, densely setose; metafemur shiny, anterior edge acute, lacking an adjacent serrated line, ventral surface densely punctate and setose; posterior ventral margin straight, strongly widened in apical half and very indistinctly serrate apically; posterior dorsal margin not serrated, densely setose. Metatibia short, widest at middle, posteriorly slightly narrowed, ratio width / length: 1 / 2.9, dorsally sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal one shortly behind middle, apical one at four fifths of metatibial length, basally beside dorsal margin with two single punctures with serrated margins, each bearing single spines; lateral face longitudinal convex, with sparse, fine punctures and with minute setae in punctures; ventral margin finely serrate, with five strong spines equidistant from each other; medial face smooth, apex interiorly near tarsal articulation shallowly truncate. Meso- and metatarsomeres impunctate and glabrous dorsally, ventrally with sparse, short setae; metatarsomeres ventrally glabrous, with a strongly serrated ridge, beside which is a strong longitudinal carina; first metatarsomere as long as two following tarsomeres combined and as long as dorsal tibial spur. Protibia short, bidentate. All claws symmetrical, feebly curved and long, with normally developed basal tooth, distal protarsomeres lacking in holotype. AEDEAGUS. Fig. 6 E – G. Female Unknown.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FF973067FDA5E9684D3A1332.taxon	distribution	Distribution See Fig. 7 J.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FFA9305AFDC3E835489D129B.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined SRI LANKA • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0949, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33082 ºN, 80.86203 ºE; 1108 m; 17 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0950, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33082 ºN, 80.86203 ºE; 1108 m; 17 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0704, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33097 ºN, 80.85934 ºE; 1190 m; 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0705, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33097 ºN, 80.85934 ºE; 1190 m; 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0706, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33097 ºN, 80.85934 ºE; 1190 m; 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0707, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33097 ºN, 80.85934 ºE; 1190 m; 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0709, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33097 ºN, 80.85934 ºE; 1190 m; 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0710, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33097 ºN, 80.85934 ºE; 1190 m; 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0711, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33097 ºN, 80.85934 ºE; 1190 m; 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0922, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33159 ºN, 80.86110 ºE; 1139 m; 17 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0923, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33159 ºN, 80.86110 ºE; 1139 m; 17 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0559, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deanston, Knuckles South; 7.33501 ºN, 80.85966 ºE; 1171 m; 18 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FFA8305BFE3FED414847171F.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined SRI LANKA • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0666, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, below the Greenview lodge; 7.53830 ºN, 80.7511 ºE; 765 m; 14 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0881, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, below the Greenview lodge; 7.54976 ºN, 80.75212 ºE; 902 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • ZFMK • 1 ♀; “ X-SR 0882, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, below the Greenview lodge; 7.54976 ºN, 80.75212 ºE; 902 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FFA8305BFDC6EE234FBD1644.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined SRI LANKA • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 2162, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Udawattakele FR; 7.29590 ºN, 80.64224 ºE; 26 - XI- 2020; Ranasinghe & Athukorala leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FFA8305BFD89EF7748AF16B1.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined SRI LANKA • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0309, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85824 ºN, 80.67506 ºE; 182 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FFA8305BFE4AE85A489813A8.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined SRI LANKA • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0621, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Greenview lodge; 7.53827 ºN, 80.75 ºE; 782 m; 14 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0622, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Greenview lodge; 7.53827 ºN, 80.75 ºE; 782 m; 14 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0623, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Greenview lodge; 7.53827 ºN, 80.75 ºE; 782 m; 14 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0624, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Greenview lodge; 7.53827 ºN, 80.75 ºE; 782 m; 14 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0625, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Greenview lodge; 7.53827 ºN, 80.75 ºE; 782 m; 14 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0626, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Greenview lodge; 7.53827 ºN, 80.75 ºE; 782 m; 14 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂, “ X-SR 0653, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana; 7.5491 ºN, 80.75386 ºE; 880 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂, “ X-SR 0867, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana; 7.5491 ºN, 80.75386 ºE; 880 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂, “ X-SR 0868, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana; 7.5491 ºN, 80.75386 ºE; 880 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂, “ X-SR 0869, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana; 7.5491 ºN, 80.75386 ºE; 880 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂, “ X-SR 2237, Matale District, Riverston, Thelgamu oya bungalow; 7.5363 ºN, 80.7723 ºE; 509 m; 02 - XII- 2020; Ranasinghe & Athukorala leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FFA8305CFD92EB524D15169C.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined SRI LANKA • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0659, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Greenview lodge; 7.53804 ºN, 80.75027 ºE; 778 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0320, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85824 ºN, 80.67506 ºE; 182 m, 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0328, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85824 ºN, 80.67506 ºE; 182 m, 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0329, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85824 ºN, 80.67506 ºE; 182 m, 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0330, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85824 ºN, 80.67506 ºE; 182 m, 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0991, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85897 ºN, 80.67533 ºE; 203, 11 - 12 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0992, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85897 ºN, 80.67533 ºE; 203, 11 - 12 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0993, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85897 ºN, 80.67533 ºE; 203, 11 - 12 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 1004, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85897 ºN, 80.67533 ºE; 203, 11 - 12 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 1005, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85897 ºN, 80.67533 ºE; 203, 11 - 12 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 1094, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85897 ºN, 80.67533 ºE; 203, 11 - 12 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 1099, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85897 ºN, 80.67533 ºE; 203, 11 - 12 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FFAF305CFEBCEFAE4F0D1187.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined SRI LANKA • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 2048, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Gannoruwa FR; 7.28342 ºN, 80.59840 ºE; 592, 5 m; 14 - VII- 2020; Ranasinghe & Athukorala leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 2245, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Thelgamu oya bangalow; 7.53635 ºN, 80.77234 ºE; 509 m; 01 - XII- 2020; Ranasinghe & Athukorala leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FFAF305DFDE1EA544EFD173C.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined SRI LANKA • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0988, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85897 ºN, 80.67533 ºE; 203 m; 11 - 12 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0989, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85897 ºN, 80.67533 ºE; 203 m; 11 - 12 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0990, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85897 ºN, 80.67533 ºE; 203 m; 11 - 12 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 1006, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85897 ºN, 80.67533 ºE; 203 m; 11 - 12 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 1089, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85897 ºN, 80.67533 ºE; 203 m; 11 - 12 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 1090, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85897 ºN, 80.67533 ºE; 203 m; 11 - 12 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 1091, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85897 ºN, 80.67533 ºE; 203 m; 11 - 12 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 1092, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85897 ºN, 80.67533 ºE; 203 m; 11 - 12 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0404, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.86011 ºN, 80.67441 ºE; 187 m; 11 - 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0406, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.86011 ºN, 80.67441 ºE; 187 m; 11 - 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 1037, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.86011 ºN, 80.67441 ºE; 187 m; 11 - 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FFAF305CFDC2E94B4DC910AA.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined SRI LANKA • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 2163, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Udawattakele FR; 7.29590 ºN, 80.64224 ºE; 26 - XI- 2020; Ranasinghe & Athukorala leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 2045, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Gannoruwa FR; 7.28368 ºN, 80.59874 ºE; 578 m; 15 - VII- 2020; Ranasinghe & Athukorala leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FFAE305DFDFAEECE4F74169E.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined SRI LANKA • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0543, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South; 7.35771 ºN, 80.85006 ºE; 980 m; 17 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 2000, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.58507 ºN, 80.74714 ºE; 399 m; 24 - VI- 2020; Ranasinghe & Athukorala leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 2022, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.5845 ºN, 80.7472 ºE; 396 m; 25 - VI- 2020; Ranasinghe, Athukorala & Jayatissa leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FFAE305DFD91EFA148AF11CA.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined SRI LANKA • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0866, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana; 7.54911 ºN, 80.75386 ºE; 880 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FFAE305DFD93E8F449641037.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined SRI LANKA • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 2027, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85783 ºN, 80.67391 ºE; 167 m; 02 - VII- 2020; Eberle, Ranasinghe & Athukorala leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FFAE305DFE30E9D84FDE13DA.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined SRI LANKA • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 1046, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 1915, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85796 ºN, 80.67554 ºE; 181 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FFAE305FFDE1EAE54E03148F.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined SRI LANKA • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0844, Sri Lanka, Galle District, Hiyare FR; 6.05871 ºN, 80.31538 ºE; 117 m; 22 - 23 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0845, Sri Lanka, Galle District, Hiyare FR; 6.05871 ºN, 80.31538 ºE; 117 m; 22 - 23 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0846, Sri Lanka, Galle District, Hiyare FR; 6.05871 ºN, 80.31538 ºE; 117 m; 22 - 23 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0847, Sri Lanka, Galle District, Hiyare FR; 6.05871 ºN, 80.31538 ºE; 117 m; 22 - 23 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0848, Sri Lanka, Galle District, Hiyare FR; 6.05871 ºN, 80.31538 ºE; 117 m; 22 - 23 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0849, Sri Lanka, Galle District, Hiyare FR; 6.05871 ºN, 80.31538 ºE; 117 m; 22 - 23 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0850, Sri Lanka, Galle District, Hiyare FR; 6.05871 ºN, 80.31538 ºE; 117 m; 22 - 23 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0851, Sri Lanka, Galle District, Hiyare FR; 6.05871 ºN, 80.31538 ºE; 117 m; 22 - 23 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0852, Sri Lanka, Galle District, Hiyare FR; 6.05871 ºN, 80.31538 ºE; 117 m; 22 - 23 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0853, Sri Lanka, Galle District, Hiyare FR; 6.05871 ºN, 80.31538 ºE; 117 m; 22 - 23 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0854, Sri Lanka, Galle District, Hiyare FR; 6.05871 ºN, 80.31538 ºE; 117 m; 22 - 23 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0529, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South; 7.35771 ºN, 80.85006 ºE; 980 m; 17 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0530, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South; 7.35771 ºN, 80.85006 ºE; 980 m; 17 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0531, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South; 7.35771 ºN, 80.85006 ºE; 980 m; 17 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0532, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South; 7.35771 ºN, 80.85006 ºE; 980 m; 17 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0533, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South; 7.35771 ºN, 80.85006 ºE; 980 m; 17 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0569, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South; 7.35771 ºN, 80.85006 ºE; 980 m; 17 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0570, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South; 7.35771 ºN, 80.85006 ºE; 980 m; 17 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0571, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South; 7.35771 ºN, 80.85006 ºE; 980 m; 17 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0752, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South; 7.35771 ºN, 80.85006 ºE; 980 m; 17 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0753, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South; 7.35771 ºN, 80.85006 ºE; 980 m; 17 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0754, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South; 7.35771 ºN, 80.85006 ºE; 980 m; 17 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0755, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South; 7.35771 ºN, 80.85006 ºE; 980 m; 17 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0762, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South; 7.35771 ºN, 80.85006 ºE; 980 m; 17 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0763, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South; 7.35771 ºN, 80.85006 ºE; 980 m; 17 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0773, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South; 7.35771 ºN, 80.85006 ºE; 980 m; 17 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0774, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South; 7.35771 ºN, 80.85006 ºE; 980 m; 17 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0775, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South; 7.35771 ºN, 80.85006 ºE; 980 m; 17 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0779, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South; 7.35771 ºN, 80.85006 ºE; 980 m; 17 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0788, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Deenston, Knuckles South; 7.35771 ºN, 80.85006 ºE; 980 m; 17 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0652, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana; 7.5491115 ºN, 80.7538616 ºE; 880 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0864, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana; 7.5491115 ºN, 80.7538616 ºE; 880 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0865, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana; 7.5491115 ºN, 80.7538616 ºE; 880 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0877, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana; 7.54976 ºN, 80.75212 ºE; 902; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0878, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana; 7.54976 ºN, 80.75212 ºE; 902; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 1082, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85783 ºN, 80.67391 ºE; 167 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FFAC305FFD9DEDB3488210D7.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined SRI LANKA • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 1024, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 12 - 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 1035, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 12 - 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 1047, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 12 - 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0372, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85783 ºN, 80.67391 ºE; 167 m; 12 - 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0457, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85783 ºN, 80.67391 ºE; 167 m; 12 - 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0460, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85783 ºN, 80.67391 ºE; 167 m; 12 - 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0465, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85783 ºN, 80.67391 ºE; 167 m; 12 - 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 1039, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85783 ºN, 80.67391 ºE; 167 m; 12 - 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 1052, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85783 ºN, 80.67391 ºE; 167 m; 12 - 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0411, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85796 ºN, 80.67554 ºE; 181 m; 12 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0450, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85796 ºN, 80.67554 ºE; 181 m; 12 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 1013, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85824 ºN, 80.67506 ºE; 182 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0405, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.86011766 ºN, 80.67441844 ºE; 187 m; 11 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FFAC305FFDCDE9FB48AF133C.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined SRI LANKA • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0326, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85824 ºN, 80.67506 ºE; 182 m; 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FFAC305FFDF8EACF485E1227.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined SRI LANKA • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0815, Sri Lanka, Nuwara Eliya District, Hakgala SNR, Seetha Eliya; 6.9307 ºN, 80.8134 ºE; 1773 m; 20 - XI- 2019; Ranasinghe & Athukorala leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0835, Sri Lanka, Nuwara Eliya District, Hakgala SNR, Seetha Eliya; 6.93045 ºN, 80.81356 ºE; 1789 m; 20 - XI- 2019; Ranasinghe & Athukorala leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FFA33050FE3CED414DC814A1.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined SRI LANKA • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0858, Sri Lanka, Galle District, Kottawa FR; 6.09712 ºN, 80.3166 ºE; 49 m; 26 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 2074, Sri Lanka, Galle District, Kottawa FR; 6.09712 ºN, 80.3166 ºE; 49 m; 11 - XII- 2020; Ranasinghe & Athukorala leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FFA33050FDD6EE6A48501667.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined SRI LANKA • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0855, Sri Lanka, Galle District, Hiyare FR; 6.0587 ºN, 80.3153 ºE; 117 m; 22 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0856, Sri Lanka, Galle District, Kanneliya FR; 6.2509 ºN, 80.340130 ºE; 56 m; 26 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0857, Sri Lanka, Galle District, Kanneliya FR; 6.25013 ºN, 80.338 ºE; 42 m; 26 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FFA33050FDC4EF2B4850110A.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined SRI LANKA • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 2058, Sri Lanka, Nuwara Eliya District, Hakgala SNR, Seetha Eliya; 6.9299 ºN, 80.81359 ºE; 1789 m; 21 - XII- 2020; Ranasinghe & Athukorala leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 2099, Sri Lanka, Nuwara Eliya District, Hakgala SNR, Seetha Eliya; 6.93074 ºN, 80.81341 ºE; 1773 m; 21 - XII- 2020; Ranasinghe & Athukorala leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FFA33050FDDAE83449341294.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined SRI LANKA • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 1973, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Gannoruwa FR; 7.28329 ºN, 80.59819 ºE; 528 m; 16 - VII- 2020; Ranasinghe & Athukorala leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 1974, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Gannoruwa FR; 7.28329 ºN, 80.59819 ºE; 528 m; 16 - VII- 2020; Ranasinghe & Athukorala leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 1975, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Gannoruwa FR; 7.28329 ºN, 80.59819 ºE; 528 m; 16 - VII- 2020; Ranasinghe & Athukorala leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 2042, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Gannoruwa FR; 7.28329 ºN, 80.59819 ºE; 528 m; 15 - VII- 2020; Ranasinghe & Athukorala leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 2208, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Gannoruwa FR; 7.28329 ºN, 80.59819 ºE; 528 m; 25 - XI- 2020; Ranasinghe & Athukorala leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 2209, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Gannoruwa FR; 7.28329 ºN, 80.59819 ºE; 528 m; 25 Nov. 2020; Ranasinghe & Athukorala leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 1972, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Gannoruwa FR; 7.28342 ºN, 80.59840 ºE; 592.5 m; 16 - VII- 2020; Ranasinghe & Athukorala leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 2046, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Gannoruwa FR; 7.28342 ºN, 80.59840 ºE; 592.5 m; 14 - VII- 2020; Ranasinghe & Athukorala leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 1970, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Udawattakele FR; 7.29590 ºN, 80.64224 ºE; 16 - VII- 2020; Ranasinghe & Athukorala leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 2159, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Udawattakele FR; 7.29690 ºN, 80.6448 ºE; 26 - XI- 2020; Ranasinghe & Athukorala leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 2160, Sri Lanka, Kandy District, Udawattakele FR; 7.29690 ºN, 80.6448 ºE; 27 - XI- 2020; Ranasinghe & Athukorala leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 2017, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana, 7.55223 ºN, 80.75293 ºE, 888 m; 24 - VII- 2020; Ranasinghe & Athukorala leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 2025, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana, 7.55223 ºN, 80.75293 ºE, 888 m; 23 - VII- 2020; Ranasinghe & Athukorala leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FFA23052FDAAED414E8111A1.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined SRI LANKA • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0654, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Greenview lodge; 7.53804 ºN, 80.75027 ºE; 778 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0655, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Greenview lodge; 7.53804 ºN, 80.75027 ºE; 778 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0656, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Greenview lodge; 7.53804 ºN, 80.75027 ºE; 778 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Light sheet ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0627, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana; 7.54911 N, 80.75386 E; 880 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0631, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana; 7.54911 N, 80,75386 E; 880 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0634, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana; 7.54911 N, 80.75386 E; 880 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0635, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana; 7.54911 N, 80.75386 E; 880 m; 778 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0636, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana; 7.54911 N, 80.75386 E; 880 m; 778 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0637, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana; 7.54911 N, 80.75386 E; 880 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0638, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana; 7.54911 N, 80.75386 E; 880 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0639, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana; 7.54911 N, 80.75386 E; 880 m 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0640, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana; 7.54911 N, 80.75386 E; 880 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0641, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana; 7,54911 N, 80,75386 E; 880 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0642, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana; 7,54911 N, 80,75386 E; 880 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0643, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana; 7,54911 N, 80,75386 E; 880 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0644, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana; 7,54911 N, 80,75386 E; 880 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0645, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana; 7,54911 N, 80,75386 E; 880 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0650, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana; 7,54911 N, 80,75386 E; 880 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0651, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana; 7,54911 N, 80,75386 E; 880 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0671, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana; 7,54911 N, 80,75386 E; 880 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0672, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana; 7,54911 N, 80,75386 E; 880 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0673, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana; 7,54911 N, 80,75386 E; 880 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0252, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 12 - 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0253, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 12 - 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0256, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 12 - 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0287, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 12 - 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0295, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 12 - 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0296, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 12 - 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0298, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 12 - 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0299, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 12 - 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0485, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 12 - 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0487, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 12 - 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0504, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 12 - 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0505, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 12 - 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0506, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 12 - 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0507, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 12 - 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0508, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 12 - 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0509, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 12 - 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0998, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 12 - 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0999, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 12 - 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 1021, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 12 - 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 1033, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 12 - 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 1048, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Dambulla, NIFS Arboretum; 7.85766 ºN, 80.67474 ºE; 174 m; 12 - 13 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
03A99E29FFA13053FDBBE96D4E811111.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined SRI LANKA • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0591, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana, 7.55223 ºN, 80.75293 ºE, 888 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X- SR 0615, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana, 7.55223 ºN, 80.75293 ºE, 888 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0616, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana, 7.55223 ºN, 80.75293 ºE, 888 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0617, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana, 7.55223 ºN, 80.75293 ºE, 888 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0618, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana, 7.55223 ºN, 80.75293 ºE, 888 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0897, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana, 7.55223 ºN, 80.75293 ºE, 888 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0898, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana, 7.55223 ºN, 80.75293 ºE, 888 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0899, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana, 7.55223 ºN, 80.75293 ºE, 888 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0900, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana, 7.55223 ºN, 80.75293 ºE, 888 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0901, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana, 7.55223 ºN, 80.75293 ºE, 888 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0902, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana, 7.55223 ºN, 80.75293 ºE, 888 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0903, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana, 7.55223 ºN, 80.75293 ºE, 888 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0904, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana, 7.55223 ºN, 80.75293 ºE, 888 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0905, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana, 7.55223 ºN, 80.75293 ºE, 888 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0906, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana, 7.55223 ºN, 80.75293 ºE, 888 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0907, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana, 7.55223 ºN, 80.75293 ºE, 888 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0908, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana, 7.55223 ºN, 80.75293 ºE, 888 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0909, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana, 7.55223 ºN, 80.75293 ºE, 888 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0910, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana, 7.55223 ºN, 80.75293 ºE, 888 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0911, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana, 7.55223 ºN, 80.75293 ºE, 888 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0912, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana, 7.55223 ºN, 80.75293 ºE, 888 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0913, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana, 7.55223 ºN, 80.75293 ºE, 888 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK • 1 ♂; “ X-SR 0914, Sri Lanka, Matale District, Riverston, Pitawala Pathana, 7.55223 ºN, 80.75293 ºE, 888 m; 15 - X- 2019; Eberle, Bohacz & Ranasinghe leg.; Black light ”; ZFMK.	en	Ranasinghe, Sasanka, Eberle, Jonas, Athukorala, Namal, Benjamin, Suresh P., Ahrens, Dirk (2022): New species of Sericini from Sri Lanka (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Part II. European Journal of Taxonomy 821 (1): 57-101, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1799, URL: http://zoobank.org/c85a43aa-6753-4851-8cee-88aae6df069b
