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Maladera reyaensis Bhunia, Gupta, Chandra & Ahrens 2021
- 1. Entomology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Kalyani, Kalyani - 741235, West Bengal, India sksarkarzoo 18 @ klyuniv. ac. in; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4129 - 2148
- 2. Museum A. Koenig, Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB), Adenauerallee 127, 53113 Bonn, Germany ahrens. dirk _ col @ gmx. de; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3524 - 7153
Description
Maladera reyaensis Bhunia, Gupta, Chandra & Ahrens, 2021
(Figs 58–61, 100)
Maladera reyaensis Bhunia, Gupta, Chandra & Ahrens, 2021: 596.
Material examined. 2 ♂♂ “ India: West Bengal, Purba Bardhaman, Purnasthali, Chupir Chor, 26.ii.2022, leg. Debika Bhunia ” (NZCI).
Distribution. India: Bihar and West Bengal (Purba Bardhaman) (Bhunia et al. 2021; this paper).
Remarks. This is the first state record of this species for Bihar, until now it was only reported from the type locality.
Notes
Published as part of 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), pp. 351-371 in Zootaxa 5353 (4) on page 360, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5353.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/8430714
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- NZCI
- Event date
- 2022-02-26
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Genus
- Maladera
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Bhunia, Gupta, Chandra & Ahrens
- Species
- reyaensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2022-02-26
- Taxonomic concept label
- Maladera reyaensis Bhunia, 2021 sec. Bhunia, Gupta, Sarkar & Ahrens, 2023
References
- Chandra, K., Ahrens, D., Bhunia, D., Sreedevi, K. & Gupta, D. (2021) New species and records of Sericini from India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). Zootaxa, 4951 (3), 492 - 510. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4951.3.4
- Bhunia, D., Gupta, D., Chandra, K. & Ahrens, D. (2021) New species and records of Sericini of India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) II. Zootaxa, 5081 (4), 594 - 600. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5081.4.10