Maladera iridescens ( Blanchard, 1850 )

Sreedevi, Kolla & Ahrens, Dirk, 2025, Descriptions of new species and new records of Sericini from Southern India and Nagaland (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericinae), Zootaxa 5692 (1), pp. 175-189 : 186

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).