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Maladera affinis
- 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 affinis (Blanchard, 1850)
(Figs 9–12, 98)
Omaloplia affinis Blanchard, 1850: 80.
Hyposerica affinis: Brenske 1899 b: 250.
Serica affinis: Grandidier 1900: 256.
Serica moreli Coquerell, 1866: 350; Grandidier 1900: 259, synonymized by Ahrens 2003a: 134.
Autoserica moreli: Brenske 1899 b: 236.
Autoserica calcuttae Brenske, 1898: 246, synonymized by Ahrens 2003a: 134.
Serica calcuttae: Barlow 1899: 243.
Autoserica lahulensis Moser, 1919: 330, synonymized by Ahrens 2003a: 134.
Maladera affinis: Ahrens 2003a: 134; 2004b: 275, 2006a: 414; Šípek & Ahrens 2011: 632; Ahrens & Fabrizi 2009b: 274, 2016: 227; Ahrens et al. 2009: 272; Shrestha et al. 2012: 380; Sabatinelli & Ahrens 2015: 139; Özgül-Siemund & Ahrens 2015: 172; Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016: 227.
Material examined. 1 ♂ “ India: Bihar, Purnea, 19.iii.1909, leg. C. Paiva ” (NZCI).
Distribution. India: Assam, Bihar and West Bengal (Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016; Chandra et al. 2021; this paper); Reunion and Madagascar (Ahrens 2003).
Remarks. This is the first record of this species for Bihar.
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 354, 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
- 1909-03-19
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Genus
- Maladera
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Blanchard
- Species
- affinis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 1909-03-19
- Taxonomic concept label
- Maladera affinis (Blanchard, 1850) sec. Bhunia, Gupta, Sarkar & Ahrens, 2023
References
- Blanchard, C. (1850) Ier Famille - Scarabaeidae. In: Milne-Edwards, H., Blanchard, C. E. & Lucas, H. (Eds.), Catalogue de la collection entomologique du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Classe des insectes. Ordre des Coleopteres. Tome I. Premiere livraison. Gide et Baudry, Paris, pp. 1 - 128.
- Brenske, E. (1899) Die Serica - Arten der Erde. III. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift, 44, 161 - 272.
- Grandidier, A. (1900) Liste des Insectes Coleoptera de la Region Malgache. Histoire physique, naturelle et politique de Madagascar, 21, Tome 1 (Texte), 1 RE Partie, 1 - 509.
- Ahrens, D. (2003 a) Maladera affinis (Blanchard, 1850) comb. n. (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea, Sericini), an oriental faunal element in the Malagasy region. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 50 (1), 133 - 142. https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / mmnd. 20030500113
- Brenske, E. (1898) Die Serica - Arten der Erde. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift, 43, 205 - 403. https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / mmnd. 47918980303
- Barlow, E. (1899) List of the Melolonthini contained in the collection of the Indian Museum. Indian Museum Notes, 4, 233 - 272.
- Moser, J. (1919) Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Melolonthiden. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung, 80, 330 - 364.
- Ahrens, D. (2004 b) Monographie der Sericini des Himalaya (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Dissertation. de - Verlag im Internet GmbH, Berlin, 534 pp.
- Ahrens, D. (2006 a) Additional data on taxonomy and distribution on Sericini of the Himalayas, with description a further new species of Maladera (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). In: Hartmann, M. & Baumbach, H. (Eds.), Biodiversitat und Naturausstattung im Himalaya. Vol. 1. Verein der Freunde und Forderer des Naturkundemuseums Erfurt e. V., Erfurt, pp. 409 - 418.
- Sipek, P. & Ahrens, D. (2011) Inferring larval taxonomy and morphology in Maladera species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericini) using DNA taxonomy tools. Systematic Entomology, 36, 628 - 643. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 3113.2011.00582. x
- Ahrens, D. & Fabrizi, S. (2009 b) New species of Sericini from the Eastern Himalaya and Tibet (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). In: Hartmann, M. & Weipert, M. (Eds.), Biodiversitat und Naturausstattung im Himalaya III. Verein der Freunde und Forderer des Naturkundemuseums Erfurt e. V., Erfurt, pp. 249 - 284.
- Ahrens, D. & Fabrizi, S. (2016) A monograph of the Sericini of India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Bonn zoological Bulletin, 65, 1 - 355.
- Shrestha, J., Eberle, J. & Ahrens, D. (2012) Further data on the distribution of Himalayan Sericini from the collection of Naturel History Museum Erfurt (Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) with description of a new Xenoserica from West- Nepal. Vernate, 31, 379 - 386.
- Sabatinelli, G. & Ahrens, D. (2015) New records and a checklist of Sericini from Pakistan (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea, Scarabaeidae). Revista gaditana de Entomologia, 6 (1), 137 - 150.
- 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