Maladera cardoni ( Brenske, 1896 )

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 : 356

Maladera cardoni ( Brenske, 1896)

( Figs 26–29 , 98 )

Serica cardoni Brenske, 1896: 153 .

Autoserica cardoni: Brenske 1898: 242 .

Maladera cardoni: Ahrens 2004b: 271, 2006a: 414 ; Ahrens & Fabrizi 2009b: 274, 2016: 232; Ahrens et al. 2009: 272; Šípek & Ahrens 2011: 635; Shrestha et al. 2012: 380; Sabatinelli & Ahrens 2015: 141.

Autoserica carinata Khan & Ghai, 1980: 24 ; synonymized by Ahrens 2004b: 271.

Cephaloserica bhutanensis Frey, 1975 b: 229 ; synonymized by Ahrens 2004b: 271.

Serica nuristanica Petrovitz, 1965: 684 ; synonymized by Ahrens 2004b: 271.

Serica tsienluana Brenske, 1897: 394 ; synonymized by Ahrens 2006a: 414.

Material examined. 2 ♂♂ India: “ West Bengal, Purba Bardhaman, Purnasthali, Chupir Char , 26.ii.2022, leg. Debika Bhunia ” ( NZCI) .

Distribution. Northern India, also south of the Ganges River, Bhutan, Nepal, Afghanistan and Pakistan ( Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016; Sreedevi et al. 2018; Chandra et al. 2021).

Figures

FIGURE 98. (A–B). A. Gangetic plains biogeographic zone of India; B. Map of Lower Gangetic plains showing sample localities of the species: Maladera kolkataensis, Gynaecoserica perdita, Maladera affinis, M. allopruinosa, M. bengalensi, M. burmeisteri burmeisteri, M. cardoni.

FIGURES 26–37. (26–29). Maladera cardoni (Brenske, 1896) (Purba bardhaman, west Bengal); (30–33). Maladera drescheri (Moser, 1913) (Jalpaiguri, West Bengal); (34–37). Maladera freyi Ahrens & Fabrizi, 2016 (West Champaran, Bihar); (26, 30, 34) Aedeagus in lateral view (left); (27, 31, 35) Aedeagus in dorsal view; (28, 32, 36) Aedeagus in lateral view (right); (29, 33, 37) Habitus, dorsal view. Scale 0.5 mm. Habitus not to scale.