identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
327A87BFFFF6B00BC184FF76FD55EDB7.text	327A87BFFFF6B00BC184FF76FD55EDB7.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Microserica nicobarensis (Redtenbacher 1868)	<div><p>Microserica nicobarensis (Redtenbacher, 1868)</p> <p>(Figs. 1–4)</p> <p>Serica nicobarensis Redtenbacher, 1868: 64.</p> <p>Microserica nicobarensis: Brenske 1898: 375.</p> <p>Type locality. “ Sambelong” [India: southern group of Nicobar Islands]. In the original description no type locality was given. We adopted it from the locality label associated with the lectotype.</p> <p>Type material examined. Lectotype (here designated), ♂: “ Microserica nicobarensis / Nicobarensis Sambelong Redt. / Serica nicobarensis Typ. Redtb. / nicobarensis Redt Type [handwritten Brenske]” (NHMW).</p> <p>Additional material examined. 3 ♂♂ “ India: <a href="http://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=92.72405&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=11.6433" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 92.72405/lat 11.6433)">Andaman</a>, Great Nicobar, South Bay, 11.643300N, 92.724050E, 20.viii.1984, leg. S. S. Saha ” (NZSI).</p> <p>Redescription. Body. Length: 7.7 mm, length of elytra: 5.4 mm, width: 6.2 mm. Body oblong-oval; dorsal face dark brown; ventral face dark reddish–brown dull; head moderately shiny, surface glabrous, except few single setae.</p> <p>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 four straight antennomeres, almost equal with 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: 0.8.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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 threequarters 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.</p> <p>Aedeagus. Figs. 1–3. Habitus. Fig. 4. Female unknown.</p> <p>Distribution (Fig. 13). The species is only known from the Nicobar island.</p> <p>Remark. Since no number of examined specimens was given in the original description, we designate here the examined syntype as lectotype of the species.</p></div> 	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/327A87BFFFF6B00BC184FF76FD55EDB7	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Bhunia, Debika;Gupta, Devanshu;Chandra, Kailash;Ahrens, Dirk	Bhunia, Debika, Gupta, Devanshu, Chandra, Kailash, Ahrens, Dirk (2021): New species and records of Sericini of India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae Melolonthinae) II. Zootaxa 5081 (4): 594-600, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5081.4.10
327A87BFFFF5B00AC184FEB2FC66ECCF.text	327A87BFFFF5B00AC184FEB2FC66ECCF.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Maladera reyaensis Bhunia, Gupta, Chandra & Ahrens 2021	<div><p>Maladera reyaensis Bhunia, Gupta, Chandra &amp; Ahrens, new species</p> <p>(Figs. 5–8)</p> <p>Type locality. India: West Bengal, Darjeeling, <a href="http://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=88.26391&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=27.03949" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 88.26391/lat 27.03949)">Reya</a>, 27.039490 N, 88.263910 E.</p> <p>Type material. Holotype, ♂: “ India: West Bengal, Darjeeling, <a href="http://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=88.26391&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=27.03949" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 88.26391/lat 27.03949)">Reya</a>, 27.039490 N, 88.263910 E.” (NZSI). Paratypes: 2 ♂♂ “ India: West Bengal, Darjeeling, <a href="http://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=88.26391&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=27.03949" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 88.26391/lat 27.03949)">Reya</a>, 27.039490 N, 88.263910 E.” (NZSI). The specimens bear a red printed label: “ Maladera reyaensis sp. n., HOLOTYPE or PARATYPE, Debika Bhunia, Devanshu Gupta, Dirk Ahrens &amp; Kailash Chandra, Det. 2021”.</p> <p>Description of holotype. Body. Length: 10.2 mm, length of elytra: 7.7 mm, width: 6.5 mm. Body oblong–oval; dorsal face dark brown; ventral face dark reddish-brown dull; antenna yellowish, dull, labroclypeus shiny, with numerous long setae on head, pronotum and elytra.</p> <p>Head. Labroclypeus short, wide and subrectangular, widest at base, lateral margins nearly straight and subparallel, slightly convergent anteriorly, anterior angles strongly rounded, anterior margin straight, margins strongly reflexed; lateral margin and ocular canthus produce an indistinct angle; surface convexly elevated medially, finely, densely punctate, with a few erect, long setae; frontoclypeal suture distinctly incised and elevated, angled medially; smooth area anterior to eye convex, twice as wide as long; ocular canthus short and narrow (1/3 of ocular diameter), finely densely punctate, with a terminal seta. Frons dull, with dense, fine punctures, with a few single setae beside eyes and behind frontoclypeal suture. Eyes moderately large, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.79. Antenna with ten antennomeres; club with three antennomeres and straight, slightly longer than remaining antennomeres combined. Mentum elevated and slightly flattened anteriorly.</p> <p>Pronotum moderately transverse, widest shortly behind middle, lateral margins moderately evenly convex and convergent anteriorly as well as posteriorly, anterior angles distinctly produced and sharp, posterior angles blunt, slightly rounded at tip; anterior margin straight, with fine marginal line, base without marginal line; surface moderately densely and finely punctate, with minute setae in punctures and numerous long semi–erect setae; anterior and lateral margin finely sparsely setose; hypomeron carinate, not produced ventrally.</p> <p>Scutellum wide, triangular, with fine, moderately dense punctures, impunctate on midline.</p> <p>Elytra widest at middle, striae finely impressed, finely and densely punctate, intervals slightly convex, with fine, moderately dense punctures concentrated along striae and with minute setae in punctures; epipleural edge robust, ending at convexly rounded external apical angle of elytra, epipleura sparsely setose; apical border of elytra membraneous, with a very fine rim of microtrichomes.</p> <p>Ventral surface dull, finely and densely punctate, nearly glabrous, metasternal disc sparsely covered with fine short setae; metacoxa with a few longer setae laterally. Abdominal sternites finely and densely punctate, punctures with minute setae, each sternite with a transverse row of punctures, each bearing a fine seta. Mesosternum between mesocoxae as wide as mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/1.81. Pygidium moderately convex, dull, coarsely and densely punctate, without a narrow smooth midline, with numerous long setae along apical margin.</p> <p>Legs short and wide, dull; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and sparsely punctate. Anterior margin of metafemur acute, without adjacent serrated line, anterior row of setae complete; posterior ventral margin smooth, moderately widened at ventral apex, dorsal posterior edge smooth, neither serrate, glabrous. Metatibia short and wide, widest at middle, ratio of width/length: 1/2.45, sharply carinate dorsally, with two groups of spines, basal group shortly behind middle, apical group at three quarters of metatibial length, in basal half with a few short single setae subparallel to dorsal margin; lateral face longitudinally convex, superficially and sparsely punctate, along midline broadly smooth, with minute setae in punctures; ventral margin finely serrate, with four equidistant robust setae; medial face smooth and glabrous; apex finely serrate, shallowly sinuate 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, glabrous; first metatarsomere slightly shorter than 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.</p> <p>Aedeagus: Figs. 5–7. Habitus: Fig. 8. Female unknown.</p> <p>Etymology. The name (adjective in the nominative singular) refers to the type locality, Reya, West Bengal (India).</p> <p>Distribution (Fig. 13). Only known from the type locality.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Maladera reyaensis new species is very similar to M. subspinosa Brenske, 1898, in the shape of the male genitalia and its external morphology. Maladera reyaensis new species differs from M. subspinosa by the glabrous pronotum, as well as the shape of the parameres: in the new species the right paramere is strongly elongated and bent before the apex and concavely sinuate (Figs. 5–7).</p> </div>	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/327A87BFFFF5B00AC184FEB2FC66ECCF	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Bhunia, Debika;Gupta, Devanshu;Chandra, Kailash;Ahrens, Dirk	Bhunia, Debika, Gupta, Devanshu, Chandra, Kailash, Ahrens, Dirk (2021): New species and records of Sericini of India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae Melolonthinae) II. Zootaxa 5081 (4): 594-600, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5081.4.10
327A87BFFFF3B00CC184FF3EFE65EC97.text	327A87BFFFF3B00CC184FF3EFE65EC97.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Nepaloserica cheemaensis Bhunia, Gupta, Chandra & Ahrens 2021	<div><p>Nepaloserica cheemaensis Bhunia, Gupta, Chandra &amp; Ahrens, new species</p> <p>(Figs. 9–12)</p> <p>Type locality. India: Sikkim, <a href="http://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=88.4773&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=27.57003" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 88.4773/lat 27.57003)">Cheema</a>, 27.570030N, 88.477300E.</p> <p>Type material. Holotype, ♂: “ India: Sikkim, <a href="http://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=88.4773&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=27.57003" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 88.4773/lat 27.57003)">Cheema</a>, 27.570030N, 88.477300E, 25.vii.1989,leg. S. Chatterjee ” (NZSI). The specimens bear a red printed label: “ Maladera cheemaensis sp. n., HOLOTYPE, Debika Bhunia, Devanshu Gupta, Dirk Ahrens &amp; Kailash Chandra, Det. 2021”.</p> <p>Description of holotype. Body. Length: 12.8 mm, length of elytra: 8.5 mm, width: 8.1 mm. Body oblong-oval; dorsal face dark reddish-brown; ventral face dark reddish-brown dull; head moderately shiny, surface glabrous, except few single setae.</p> <p>Head. Labroclypeus trapezoidal, little wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins moderately convex and convergent anteriorly, anterior angles strongly rounded, anteriorly weakly sinuate medially, margins moderately reflexed; surface flat and shiny, densely punctate, glabrous fine punctures mixed with coarse ones each bearing a long erect seta; frontoclypeal suture distinctly incised, flat and distinctly curved medially; smooth area anterior to eye moderately wide, weakly convex, approximately 1.5 times as wide as long; ocular canthus moderately long (length =1/3 of ocular diameter) and slender, glabrous, with a long terminal seta. Frons completely dull, with fine and dense punctures, each bearing a long seta; setae behind frontoclypeal suture erect, remaining setae bent posteriorly. 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 moderately large, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.75. Antenna with ten antennomeres, club with seven antennomeres and weakly reflexed, twice as long as the remaining three antennomeres combined; antennomere 3 more than three times as long as the pedicellus. Mentum elevated and slightly flattened anteriorly. Labrum distinctly produced medially, with a deep median sinuation.</p> <p>Pronotum moderately transverse, widest at middle, lateral margins distinctly convex and weakly convergent posteriorly in basal half, but strongly convergent anteriorly, anterior angles distinctly produced and slightly rounded at tip, posterior angles blunt; anterior margin convexly produced medially, with a marginal line widely interrupted medially; surface densely and finely punctate, punctures each bearing moderately long, erect setae; setae of anterior and lateral border sparse being twice as long as setae on disc; hypomeron basally distinctly carinate but not produced. Scutellum slender and moderately long, triangular with the apex slightly rounded, with fine, moderately dense punctures, with only minute setae in punctures.</p> <p>Elytra oblong, widest in posterior third, striae weakly impressed, finely and moderately densely punctate, intervals weakly convex, with sparse, fine punctures concentrated along striae, intervals with a very few fine white setae; epipleural edge fine, ending at moderately curved external apical angle of elytra, epipleura densely setose, apical border with a very fine fringe of microtrichomes.</p> <p>Ventral surface dull, finely and densely punctate, metasternum densely covered with long setae on disc, glabrous on sides; metacoxa glabrous, with a few single setae laterally; abdominal sternites finely and unevenly densely punctuate, almost glabrous, with a transverse row of coarse punctures, each bearing a robust short seta; last abdominal sternite bearing a pair of minute tubercles medially separated from each other by the width of the metatibia. Mesosternum between mesocoxae half as wide as the slender mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/</p> <p>metacoxa: 1/ 1.52. Pygidium weakly convex and dull, coarsely and densely punctate, without smooth midline, with a few semi-erect setae.</p> <p>Legs slender; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and sparsely punctate between the rows; metafemur dull, anterior margin acute, behind anterior edge without serrated line, posterior margin in apical half ventrally smooth and only weakly widened, posterior margin dorsally weakly serrated, on its basal portion with a few very long setae being subequal to width of metafemur. Metatibia slender and moderately long, widest at apex, ratio of width/ length: 1/ 3.6, dorsally sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal group at one third, apical group at two third of metatibial length, basally without strong setae; outside longitudinally convex, very finely and sparsely punctate; ventral edge finely serrated, with three robust setae, the apical one more widely separated from the middle one, medial face smooth, apex moderately sinuate interiorly near tarsal articulation. Tarsomeres ventrally with protarsomeres smooth, meso- and metatarsomeres with a few very fine punctures; metatarsomeres with a strongly serrated ridge ventrally, first metatarsomere a little shorter than the two following tarsomeres combined and slightly longer than the upper tibial spur. Protibia long, bidentate; anterior claws symmetrical, basal tooth of inner claw sharply truncate at apex.</p> <p>Aedeagus. Figs. 9–11. Habitus. Fig. 12. Female unknown.</p> <p>Etymology. The name (adjective in the nominative singular) refers to the type locality Cheema, Sikkim (India).</p> <p>Distribution (Fig. 13). Only known from the type locality.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Nepaloserica cheemaensis new species is in the shape of the male genitalia and its external morphology similar to Nepaloserica vilya Ahrens &amp; Sabatinelli, 1996. Nepaloserica cheemaensis new species differs from the latter in the dense pilosity on pronotum, the longer antennal club in the male, and the more elongate phallobase (Figs. 9–11).</p> </div>	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/327A87BFFFF3B00CC184FF3EFE65EC97	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		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