Maladera rufocuprea (Blanchard, 1850)

Chandra, Kailash, Ahrens, Dirk, Bhunia, Debika, Sreedevi, Kolla & Gupta, Devanshu, 2021, New species and records of Sericini from India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae Melolonthinae), Zootaxa 4951 (3), pp. 492-510 : 506

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4951.3.4
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1A39DCF0-FCAC-4927-AFD3-EBF049F00A9B
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4668319
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scientific name	Maladera rufocuprea (Blanchard, 1850)
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Material examined. 1 male: “ India: Madhya Pradesh, Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve , leg. K. Chandra ” ( NZSI) ; 1 male: “ India: Chhattisgarh, Koriya, Sonhat , 23.15004N, 82.16851E, 22.v.2012, 25466/H4A, leg. S. Gupta ” ( NZSI) GoogleMaps ; 1 male: “ India: Chhattisgarh, Jagdalpur , 19.08977N, 82.02153E, 04.x.2011, 25467/H4A, leg. R.P. Gupta ” ( NZSI) GoogleMaps ; 3 males: “ India: Chhattisgarh, Jashpur, Badalkhol , 22.8773N, 84.1372E, 21.x.2011, 25469/H4A, leg. A. Majumdar ” ( NZSI) GoogleMaps ; 1 male: “ India: Chhattisgarh, Jagdalpur , 19.08977N, 82.02153E, 21.x.2011, 25468/H4A, leg. R.P. Gupta ” ( NZSI) GoogleMaps ; 1 male: “ India: Chhattisgarh, Koriya, Sonhat , 23.15004N, 82.16851E, 10.v.2012, 25465/H4A, leg. S. Gupta ” ( NZSI) GoogleMaps , 1 male: “ India: Chhattisgarh, Raigarh, Gomerdha , 21.19956N, 81.28901E, 18.xi.2012, 25462/H4A, leg. S. Gupta ” ( NZSI) GoogleMaps ; 1 male: “ India: Chhattisgarh, Raigarh, Gomerdha , 21.19956N, 81.28901E, 25.xi.2012, 25461/H4A, leg. S. Gupta ” ( NZSI) GoogleMaps ; 1 male: “ India: Chhattisgarh, Koriya, Sonhat , 23.15004N, 82.16851E, 12.vii.2013, 25464/ H4A, leg. A. Parida ” ( NZSI) GoogleMaps ; 1 male: “ India: Chhattisgarh, Koriya, Sonhat , 23.15004N, 82.16851E, 09.x.2013, 25463/H4A, leg. A. Parida ” ( NZSI) GoogleMaps ; 1 male: “ India: Chhattisgarh, Badbhum, Durg , 21.19956N, 81.28901E, 8.ii.2014, 25458/H4A, leg. S. Gupta ” ( NZSI) GoogleMaps ; 1 male: “ India: Chhattisgarh, Badbhum, Durg , 21.19956N, 81.28901E, 31.iii.2014, 25459/H4A, leg. S. Gupta ” ( NZSI) GoogleMaps ; 1 male: “ India: Chhattisgarh, Badbhum, Durg , 21.19956N, 81.28901E, 1.iv.2014, 25457/H4A, leg. S. Gupta ” ( NZSI) GoogleMaps , 6 males: “ India: Chhattisgarh, Raigarh, Gomerdha , 21.19956N, 81.28901E, 27.v.2014, 25460/H4A, leg. S. Gupta ” ( NZSI) GoogleMaps ; 1 male: “ India: Karnataka, Dakshina Kannada, Belthangady , 685 m, 12°99‘ N, 75°27‘ E, 30.vi.2019, leg. R. Naveen ” ( NBAIR) ; 10 males: “ India: Maharashtra, Pune , 560 m, 18°31’ N, 73°51’ E, 16.iv.2020, leg. Deependra Yadav ” ( NBAIR) GoogleMaps .

Remark. This is the first state record of this species for Chhattisgarh (reported from Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh by ( Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016; Sreedevi et al. 2018).