Maladera sprecherae Ahrens 2004

Maladera sprecherae Ahrens, 2004 (Figs 78–81, 101) Maladera sprecherae Ahrens, 2004b: 214; Ahrens 2006d: 15; Ahrens & Fabrizi 2009b: 273, 2011: 162, 2016: 262. Material examined. 1 ♂ India: “ West Bengal, Jalpaiguri, Gajoldoba 29.x.22, leg. Debika Bhunia ” (NZCI). Distribution. India: Arunachal Pradesh and West Bengal (Jalpaiguri); Bhutan (Ahrens & Fabrizi 2009; Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016; Chandra et al. 2021; this paper). Remark. This is the first state record of this species for West Bengal, previously recorded from Arunachal Pradesh and Bhutan.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 362, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5353.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/843071