Maladera cardoni

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).Published as part of 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), pp. 351-371 in Zootaxa 5353 (4) on page 356, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5353.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/843071