Maladera drescheri ( Moser, 1913 )

Bhunia, Debika, Gupta, Devanshu, Sarkar, Subhankar Kumar & Ahrens, Dirk, 2023, A new species and new records of Sericini chafers from the Lower Gangetic Plains in India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericinae), Zootaxa 5353 (4), pp. 351-371 : 356

Maladera drescheri ( Moser, 1913)

( Figs 30–33 , 99 )

Autoserica drescheri Moser, 1913: 294 .

Maladera drescheri: Ahrens 2004b: 278 .

Autoserica dalatensis Frey, 1969 b: 107 ; synonymized by Ahrens 2004b: 278; Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016: 263.

Material examined. 1 ♂ “ India: West Bengal, Jalpaiguri, Sonali , 08.xi.2014, leg. B. Mitra ” ( NZCI).

Distribution. Almost entire Oriental Region (see Ahrens 2004). India: Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram and West Bengal (Jalpaiguri) ( Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016; Chandra et al. 2021; this paper).

Remarks. This is the first state record of this species for West Bengal.

Figures

FIGURE 99. (A–B). A. Gangetic plains biogeographic zone of India; B. Map of Lower Gangetic plains showing sample localities of the species: M. drescheri, M. freyi, M. iridescens, M. kaimurensis, M. lugubris, M. marginella.

FIGURES 26–37. (26–29). Maladera cardoni (Brenske, 1896) (Purba bardhaman, west Bengal); (30–33). Maladera drescheri (Moser, 1913) (Jalpaiguri, West Bengal); (34–37). Maladera freyi Ahrens & Fabrizi, 2016 (West Champaran, Bihar); (26, 30, 34) Aedeagus in lateral view (left); (27, 31, 35) Aedeagus in dorsal view; (28, 32, 36) Aedeagus in lateral view (right); (29, 33, 37) Habitus, dorsal view. Scale 0.5 mm. Habitus not to scale.