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Maladera iridescens

Creators

  • 1. Centre for Taxonomy and Evolutionary Research; Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig Bonn, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn, Germany.
  • 2. Division of Germplasm Collection and Characterization, ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources P. B. No. 2491, H. A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bengaluru- 560024; Karnataka, India.

Description

Maladera iridescens (Blanchard, 1850)

Material examined. 1 male: “ India: Odisha, Raikia, 20.058611N, 84.240555E, 30.vi.1974, leg. A.K Mandal ” (NZSI); 1 male: “ India: Karnataka, Bangalore Urban, Anekal, 915m, 12°42’ N, 77°42’ E, ix.2014, leg. Mohan ” (NBAIR).

Remark. This is the first state record of this species for Odisha (Orissa). The species is known to occur in India (Kerala, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand), Nepal, and Pakistan (Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016)

Notes

Published as part of Chandra, Kailash, Ahrens, Dirk, Bhunia, Debika, Sreedevi, Kolla & Gupta, Devanshu, 2021, New species and records of Sericini from India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae Melolonthinae), pp. 492-510 in Zootaxa 4951 (3) on page 503, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4951.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/4668219

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Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/BF2CFB49FFA9AA64FF44F8E1FB6AF804

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4951.3.4 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/4668219 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/43158331FFA2AA6FFFD3FFEFFFD8FFDA (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/1A39DCF0-FCAC-4927-AFD3-EBF049F00A9B (URL)
Is source of
https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/BF2CFB49FFA9AA64FF44F8E1FB6AF804 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/181003375 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/7386/taxon/BF2CFB49FFA9AA64FF44F8E1FB6AF804.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
NBAIR , NZSI
Event date
1974-06-30
Family
Melolonthidae
Genus
Maladera
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Blanchard
Species
iridescens
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
1974-06-30
Taxonomic concept label
Maladera iridescens (Blanchard, 1850) sec. Chandra, Ahrens, Bhunia, Sreedevi & Gupta, 2021

References

  • Ahrens, D. & Fabrizi, S. (2016) A monograph of the Sericini of India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Bonn Zoological Bulletin, 65, 1 - 355.