Maladera affinis ( 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 : 185

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5692.1.9

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:412505FA-F15B-43F9-AD3C-4D7A0726960E

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17321157

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B74F7A-FFD7-FF90-82B7-FD5FFC2AB579

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Plazi

scientific name

Maladera affinis ( Blanchard, 1850 )
status

 

Maladera affinis ( Blanchard, 1850) View in CoL

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

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).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Tribe

Sericini

Genus

Maladera

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