Maladera kaimurensis Chandra, Ahrens, Bhunia, Sreedevi & Gupta 2021, new species
Creators: name: Chandra, Kailash
name: Ahrens, Dirk
name: Bhunia, Debika
name: Sreedevi, Kolla
name: Gupta, Devanshu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Melolonthidae
Maladera
Maladera kaimurensis

description: Maladera kaimurensis Chandra, Ahrens, Bhunia, Sreedevi & Gupta, new species
(Figs. 1–4)
Type locality. India: Uttar Pradesh, Mirzapur, Kaimur Wildlife Sanctuary, 30.2622N, 77.63105933E.
Type material. Holotype, male: “ India: Uttar Pradesh, Mirzapur, Kaimur Wildlife Sanctuary, 30.2622N, 77.63105933E, 30.vii.1999, leg. Kailash Chandra ” (NZSI). The specimen bear a red printed label: “ Maladera kaimurensis sp. nov., HOLOTYPE, Kailash Chandra, Dirk Ahrens, Debika Bhunia, Kolla Sreedevi & Devanshu Gupta, Det. 2020”.
Description (holotype, male).
Body. Length: 9.8 mm, length of elytra: 7.7 mm, width: 6.5 mm. Body oblong-oval; dorsal face dark brown; ventral face dark reddish-brown dull; head moderately shiny, surface glabrous, except few single setae.
Head. Labroclypeus narrow and trapezoidal, widest at base; lateral margins straight and convergent anteriorly; anterior angles strongly rounded; anterior margin distinctly emarginate medially, margins moderately reflexed. Antennae with ten antennomeres; club with three straight antennomeres,slightly shorter than remaining antennomeres combined. Lateral margin and ocular canthus produced into a distinct angle, surface flat, finely and densely punctate. Frontoclypeal suture indistinctly incised, evenly curved. Smooth area anterior to eye weakly convex, twice as wide as long; ocular canthus short and moderately narrow (1/4 of ocular diameter), finely and densely punctate, terminal seta absent. Mentum elevated and slightly flattened anteriorly. Frons with dense, but fine punctures and with a single, long seta beside eyes. Eyes small, ratio diameter/interocular width: 0.93.
Pronotum transverse, widest shortly before base; lateral margins evenly convex and strongly convergent anteriorly, slightly convexly narrowed towards base; anterior angles distinctly produced and sharp; posterior angles strongly rounded; anterior margin convex, with complete but indistinct marginal line; base without marginal line; surface densely and finely punctate, punctures less dense on midline, with minute setae in punctures; anterior and lateral margin finely setose; hypomeron carinate, not produced ventrally. Scutellum wide, triangular, with fine, and dense punctures, punctures less dense on basal midline.
Elytra widest at middle; striae distinctly impressed, finely and sparsely punctate; intervals slightly convex, with fine and dense punctures, with minute setae in punctures; odd intervals with a very few short and white setae; epipleural edge robust, ending at strongly curved external apical angle of elytra; epipleura sparsely setose; apical border of elytra membranous, with a fine rim of microtrichomes.
Ventral surface dull, coarsely and densely punctate, glabrous. Metasternal disc sparsely covered with fine, short setae. Metacoxa with a few longer setae laterally. Abdominal sternites finely and densely punctate, sternites with a transverse row of punctures, punctures bearing a fine seta. Mesosternum between mesocoxae as wide as mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/2.1. Pygidium moderately convex and dull, coarsely and densely punctate, without impunctate midline, glabrous except a few robust setae along apical margin.
Legs moderately long and wide, shiny; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and sparsely punctate. Metafemur with anterior margin acute, without adjacent serrated line, but with few sparse setae; posterior margin smooth, weakly widened at apex, smooth at apex ventrally. Metatibia long and wide; widest at middle, sharply carinate dorsally, with two groups of spines, longer at basal group at anterior third, smaller at apical group at three quarters of metatibial length, ratio of width/length: 1/2.56; lateral face longitudinally convex, shiny, impunctate and glabrous; ventral margin densely serrate, with four equidistant long and robust setae; medial face smooth and glabrous; apex finely serrate, moderately truncate interiorly near tarsal articulation. Tarsomeres dorsally impunctate, glabrous, neither laterally nor dorsally carinate, moderately setose ventrally; metatarsomeres with a strongly serrated ridge ventrally and a smooth subventral longitudinal carina; first metatarsomere as long as following two tarsomeres combined and slightly longer than dorsal tibial spur. Protibia moderately long, bidentate; anterior claws symmetrical, basal tooth of both claws bluntly truncate at apex.
Aedeagus. Figs. 1–3. Habitus. Fig. 4.
Female. unknown.
Etymology. The name (adjective in the nominative singular) refers to the type locality, Kaimur Wildlife Sanctuary (India).
Distribution. Only known from the type locality (Fig. 21).
Differential diagnosis. Maladera kaimurensis new species is similar to M. mizoramensis Sreedevi, Speer, Fabrizi & Ahrens, 2018 in the shape of the male genitalia and its external morphology. The new species differs from M. mizoramensis by the more elongate phallobase, and different parameres (Figs. 1– 3).
description: Published as part of Chandra, Kailash, Ahrens, Dirk, Bhunia, Debika, Sreedevi, Kolla & Gupta, Devanshu, 2021, New species and records of Sericini from India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae Melolonthinae), pp. 492-510 in Zootaxa 4951 (3) on pages 493-494, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4951.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/4668219