Maladera affinis (Blanchard, 1850)

Material examined. 1 ♂: “ INDIA: Jammu & Kashmir, Srinagar, CITH, 33°59’N; 74°50’E, 19.viii.2015, leg. Mohan, M. ” (NBAIR) ; 1 ♂ “ INDIA: Jammu & Kashmir, Srinagar, CITH, 33°59’N; 74°50’E, 01.vii.2014, leg. Ashraf ” (NBAIR) ; 1 ♂ “ INDIA: Jammu & Kashmir, Srinagar, CITH, 33°59’N; 74°50’E, 21.viii.2010, leg. Ashraf ” (NBAIR) ; 1 ♂ “ INDIA: Jammu & Kashmir, Srinagar, CITH, 33°59’N; 74°50’E, 01.ix.2012, leg. Arif ” (NBAIR) .

Remarks. This is the first state record of this species for Jammu and Kashmir. This species is known to occur in northeastern India, lower central Himalaya, West Bengal (Ahrens and Fabrizi 2016), Assam, Tripura (Chandra et al. 2021), Bihar (Bhunia et al. 2023a), Uttarakhand (Gupta et al. 2025).