Maladera rufocuprea ( Blanchard, 1850 )

Bhunia, Debika, Gupta, Devanshu, Sarkar, Subhankar Kumar & Ahrens, Dirk, 2023, A new species and new records of Sericini chafers from the Lower Gangetic Plains in India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericinae), Zootaxa 5353 (4), pp. 351-371 : 361

Maladera rufocuprea ( Blanchard, 1850)

( Figs 62–65 , 100 )

Omaloplia rufocuprea Blanchard, 1850: 77 .

Serica rufocuprea: Brenske 1896: 8, 1898: 231 ; Barlow 1899: 246.

Maladera rufocuprea: Ahrens 2004b: 266 ; Fabrizi & Ahrens 2014: 47; Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016: 244.

Serica carinirostris Brenske, 1896: 153 ; synonymized by Ahrens 2004b: 266.

Autoserica carinirostris: Brenske 1898: 248 .

Cephaloserica carinirostris: Brenske 1902: 61 .

Autoserica fatifera Brenske, 1898: 298 ; synonymized by Ahrens 2004b: 266.

Maladera truncatus [sic] Mittal, 1976: 180; synonymized by Ahrens 2004b: 266.

Maladera truncata: Sabatinelli 1993: 626 .

Material examined. 2 ♂♂ “ India: West Bengal, Bankura, Chaltha , 24.vii.22, leg. Suresh. Chand ” ( NZCI).

Distribution. India: Chhattisgarh, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal; Sri Lanka ( Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016; Sreedevi et al. 2018; Chandra et al. 2021; this paper).

Remark. This is the first state record of this species for West Bengal.

Figures

FIGURE 100. (A–B). A. Gangetic plains biogeographic zone of India; B. Map of Lower Gangetic plains showing sample localities of the species: Maladera proxima, M. reyaensis, M. rufocuprea, M. schenklingi, M.setosa, M. siniaevi.

FIGURES 62–73. (62–65). Maladera rufocuprea (Blanchard, 1850) (Bankura, West Bengal); (66–69). Maladera schenklingi (Moser, 1918) (Purnea, Bihar); (70–73). Maladera setosa (Brenske, 1896) (West Champaran, Bihar); (62, 66, 70) Aedeagus in lateral view (left); (63, 67, 71) Aedeagus in dorsal view; (64, 68, 72) Aedeagus in lateral view (right); (65, 69, 73) Habitus, dorsal view. Scale 0.5 mm. Habitus not to scale.