New species records of sericine chafer beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) from Goa and Maharashtra, India
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https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.9295.17.1.26417-26420Keywords:
Distribution, genitalia, new records, pests, phytophagous, scarab beetles, Scarabaeoidea, sericini, species diversity, Western GhatsAbstract
The present study reports three species of sericine chafer beetles, Maladera keralensis (Frey, 1972), Maladera burmeisteri alternans (Frey, 1975), and Neoserica gravida Ahrens & Fabrizi, 2016 as new records for Goa state and M. burmeisteri alternans for Maharashtra state of India.
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