Maladera marginella

Maladera marginella (Hope, 1831) (Figs 50–53, 99) Serica marginella Hope, 1831: 24; Brenske 1896: 152. Omaloplia marginella: Blanchard 1850: 78. Autoserica marginella: Brenske 1898: 307. Maladera marginella: Ahrens 2004b: 253, 2006a: 414; Ahrens & Fabrizi 2009b: 270, 2016: 201; Shrestha et al. 2012: 381. Microserica semirufa Brenske, 1898: 320; synonymized by Ahrens 2004b: 253. Material examined. 1 ♂ “ India: West Bengal, Tarekaswar, 19.vii.1964, leg. D. N. Nandi ” (NZCI), 1 ♂ “ India, Bihar, West Champaran, 04.x.2016, leg. R.S. Mridha ” (NZCI). Distribution. India: Bihar, West Bengal, Meghalaya, and Sikkim (Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016; Chandra et al. 2021; this paper); Nepal (Ahrens 2004). Remarks. This is the first state records of this species for Bihar and West Bengal.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 359, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5353.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/843071