Maladera iridescens (Blanchard, 1850)

Material examined. 2 ♂♂ “ INDIA: Chhattisgarh, Gariyaband, Dongri, 20°38’N; 82°3’E, 3.iv.2020, leg. Sonalika ” (NBAIR) ; 3 ♂♂ “ Jharkhand: Ranchi, ICAR – INRG, 23°23’N, 85°23’E, 03.vi.2020, leg. Rajgopal ” (NBAIR) ; 4 ♂♂ “ Andhra Pradesh: Tirupati, RARS, 13.37° N, 79.25°E, 28.viii.2021, leg. K. Sreedevi, Judith, C and Veena N V ” (NBAIR) ; 3 ♂♂ “ Jharkhand: Ranchi, ICAR – INRG, 23°23’N, 85°23’E, 13.v.2021, leg. Rajgopal ” (NBAIR) ; 3 ♂♂ “ Chhattisgarh: Naya Raipur, HNLU, 21°9’N 81°46’E, 29.vi.2021, leg. Sonalika ” (NBAIR) .

Remarks. This is the first state record of this species for Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. This species was known from Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, Jharkhand, West Bengal (Ahrens 2004), Uttarakhand, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala (Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016), Punjab and Haryana (Sreedevi et al. 2018).