Eletica (Meteletica) testacea (Olivier, 1795)

Bologna, Marco A., B, Ladislav Černý & B, Ahmed Zubair, 2018, Meloidae (Coleoptera) of Pakistan and Kashmir with the description of three new species, new faunistic and taxonomic records, and a zoogeographic analysis, Turkish Journal of Zoology 42 (6), pp. 637-660 : 638

Eletica (Meteletica) testacea (Olivier, 1795)

New records. Pakistan: 1 ex., Kaghan valley , N Shogran, 2900–3100 m, 27/ 29.vii.2001 Heinz ( NHMW, late J. Probst collection) .; 1 ex., Kashmir , Kotli, 31.iii.16 ( FUUZM) ; 1 ex., idem, 26.viii.2016 ( CB) ; 2 exx., Lower Dir , Samar Bagh, Khyber Pakhtoon Khwa, 27.vi.2015 ( MUK) .

Distribution. Oriental element, distributed from eastern and northern Pakistan to eastern India and Sri Lanka, northern Myanmar and northern Thailand [New country record: Chiang Mai prov., Chiang Dao (CB). Note that in this locality it is sympatric with E. castanea Thomas, 1893 : see Bologna, 1995)]. Kaszab (1955). Anand (1989) recorded E. testacea from some Indian states.

Remarks. The Pakistani record of Eletica castanea published by Hashmi and Tashfeen (1992) is erroneous and actually refers to E. testacea . Eletica castanea is restricted to the Indochinese Peninsula. Citations of Eletica gangetica and E. testacea R., published in Hashmi and Tashfeen (1992), both refer to E. testacea . Saha (1972b) described E. pilaniensis from Rajasthan and E. kaszabi from Gujarat, both Indian states close to Pakistan, but these taxa are probably synonyms of testacea [we examined specimens of E. testacea from Rajasthan (CB)].