New species and records of Sericini from the Indian subcontinent (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) II

  • Kolla Sreedevi 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
  • Sasankha Ranasinghe Centre for Taxonomy and Evolutionary Research, Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig Bonn, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn
  • Silvia Fabrizi Centre for Taxonomy and Evolutionary Research, Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig Bonn, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn
  • Dirk Ahrens Centre for Taxonomy and Evolutionary Research, Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig Bonn, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2019.567
Keywords: chafers, new distribution records, new species, Oriental region

Abstract

The current paper presents new locality records, including first state records for Mizoram and Nagaland, of 50 species of Sericini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) from the Indian subcontinent. Nine new species are described herein: Maladera naveeni sp. nov., M. sujitrae sp. nov., M. thirthahalliensis sp. nov., M. viraktamathi sp. nov., Neoserica (s. lat.) reuteri sp. nov., Oxyserica goertzae sp. nov., Selaserica hosanagarana sp. nov., Serica (s. str.) eberlei sp. nov. and S. (s. str.) tashigaonensis sp. nov.

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Sreedevi K., Speer J., Fabrizi S., Ahrens D. 2018. New species and records of Sericini scarab beetles from the Indian subcontinent (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). ZooKeys 772: 97–128. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.772.25320

Published
2019-10-17
How to Cite
Sreedevi, K., Ranasinghe, S., Fabrizi, S., & Ahrens, D. (2019). New species and records of Sericini from the Indian subcontinent (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) II. European Journal of Taxonomy, (567). https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2019.567
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No. 567 (2019): New species and records of Sericini from the Indian subcontinent (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) II
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Entomology

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