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<mods:title>Review of Melolontha Fabricius, 1775 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) from India with the description of two new species</mods:title>
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<emphasis box="[151,364,1986,2010]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="212">Melolontha flabelata</emphasis>
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Li 
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<emphasis box="[1412,1430,151,174]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="213">H</emphasis>
. 
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<collectorName box="[765,925,287,314]" pageId="22" pageNumber="213">E. Himalayas</collectorName>
, 1♁, 
<date box="[995,1115,287,313]" pageId="22" pageNumber="213" value="2014-04-20">
<collectingDate box="[995,1115,287,313]" pageId="22" pageNumber="213" value="2014-04-20">20.iv.2014</collectingDate>
</date>
, leg. 
<collectorName box="[1185,1335,287,314]" pageId="22" pageNumber="213">F.H. Gravely</collectorName>
[
<collectionCode box="[1354,1424,288,314]" country="India" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/7mhb-r8q3" name="Zoological Survey of India, National Zoological Collection" pageId="22" pageNumber="213">NZSI</collectionCode>
];
</materialsCitation>
<materialsCitation box="[151,828,323,352]" collectingDate="1912-05" collectingDateMax="2014-04-20" collectingDateMin="1912-05" collectionCode="NZSI" collectorName="Jahans" country="India" county="Darjeeling" elevation="2134" location="Darjeeling" municipality="May - June" pageId="22" pageNumber="213" specimenCount="1" stateProvince="West Bengal">
<collectorName box="[151,297,324,350]" pageId="22" pageNumber="213">Kurseong, E</collectorName>
. Himalayas, 
<quantity box="[446,538,323,350]" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.524" pageId="22" pageNumber="213" unit="ft" value="5000.0">
<elevation box="[446,538,323,350]" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.524" pageId="22" pageNumber="213" unit="ft" value="5000.0">5000 ft.</elevation>
</quantity>
, 1♁, leg. 
<collectorName box="[655,730,323,349]" pageId="22" pageNumber="213">Jahans</collectorName>
[
<collectionCode box="[746,816,324,350]" country="India" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/7mhb-r8q3" name="Zoological Survey of India, National Zoological Collection" pageId="22" pageNumber="213">NZSI</collectionCode>
];
</materialsCitation>
<materialsCitation collectingDate="1912-05" collectingDateMax="2014-04-20" collectingDateMin="1912-05" collectionCode="NZSI" country="India" county="Darjeeling" elevation="2134" location="Darjeeling" municipality="May - June" pageId="22" pageNumber="213" specimenCount="1" stateProvince="West Bengal">
Darjeeling, Ghumti, 
<quantity box="[1074,1166,323,350]" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.2192" pageId="22" pageNumber="213" unit="ft" value="4000.0">
<elevation box="[1074,1166,323,350]" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.2192" pageId="22" pageNumber="213" unit="ft" value="4000.0">4000 ft.</elevation>
</quantity>
, 
<date box="[1180,1267,323,349]" pageId="22" pageNumber="213" value="1912-06">
<collectingDate box="[1180,1267,323,349]" pageId="22" pageNumber="213" value="1912-06">vi.1912</collectingDate>
</date>
, leg. unknown [
<collectionCode box="[158,228,360,386]" country="India" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/7mhb-r8q3" name="Zoological Survey of India, National Zoological Collection" pageId="22" pageNumber="213">NZSI</collectionCode>
];
</materialsCitation>
<materialsCitation box="[247,1054,359,388]" collectingDate="1912-05" collectingDateMax="2014-04-20" collectingDateMin="1912-05" collectionCode="NZSI" country="India" county="Darjeeling" elevation="2134" location="Darjeeling" municipality="May - June" pageId="22" pageNumber="213" specimenCount="1" stateProvince="West Bengal">
Darjeeling, 
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:BC1F87FF136BFFEEFF74F924FE70B8C0:316960321368FFEEFE98FEB1FDD0B8AF" box="[379,546,359,386]" country="India" county="Darjeeling" municipality="May - June" name="East Himalaya" pageId="22" pageNumber="213" stateProvince="West Bengal">East Himalaya</location>
, 
<quantity box="[557,666,359,386]" metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="4.573524" metricValueMax="9.144" metricValueMin="0.003048" pageId="22" pageNumber="213" unit="ft" value="1500.5" valueMax="3000.0" valueMin="1.0">
<elevation box="[557,666,359,386]" metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="4.573524" metricValueMax="9.144" metricValueMin="0.003048" pageId="22" pageNumber="213" unit="ft" value="1500.5" valueMax="3000.0" valueMin="1.0">
1 
<emphasis box="[571,585,360,385]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="213">–</emphasis>
3000ft.
</elevation>
</quantity>
<date box="[672,750,360,386]" pageId="22" pageNumber="213" value="1912-05">
<collectingDate box="[672,750,360,386]" pageId="22" pageNumber="213" value="1912-05">v.1912</collectingDate>
</date>
, 1♁, leg. unknown [
<collectionCode box="[977,1048,360,386]" country="India" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/7mhb-r8q3" name="Zoological Survey of India, National Zoological Collection" pageId="22" pageNumber="213">NZSI</collectionCode>
]
</materialsCitation>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection box="[199,560,395,422]" pageId="22" pageNumber="213" type="diagnosis">
<paragraph blockId="22.[151,1437,251,494]" box="[199,560,395,422]" pageId="22" pageNumber="213">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,314,395,421]" pageId="22" pageNumber="213">Diagnosis</emphasis>
. Refer to species key.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="22" pageNumber="213" type="distribution">
<paragraph blockId="22.[151,1437,251,494]" pageId="22" pageNumber="213">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,345,431,457]" pageId="22" pageNumber="213">Distribution</emphasis>
. 
<collectingCountry box="[363,425,431,457]" name="India" pageId="22" pageNumber="213">India</collectingCountry>
: 
<collectingRegion box="[439,520,431,457]" country="India" name="Sikkim" pageId="22" pageNumber="213">Sikkim</collectingRegion>
(
<bibRefCitation author="Brenske, E." box="[538,713,431,457]" pageId="22" pageNumber="213" pagination="150 - 164" refId="ref13360" refString="Brenske, E. (1896 a) Insectes du Bengale. (37 e Memoire.) Melolonthidae. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, 40, 150 - 164." type="journal article" year="1896">Brenske 1896a</bibRefCitation>
) and 
<collectingRegion box="[782,927,431,458]" country="India" name="West Bengal" pageId="22" pageNumber="213">West Bengal</collectingRegion>
(Darjeeling); 
<collectingCountry box="[1093,1224,431,457]" name="Bangladesh" pageId="22" pageNumber="213">Bangladesh</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation author="Sharp, D." box="[1242,1377,431,457]" pageId="22" pageNumber="213" pagination="65 - 90" refId="ref15828" refString="Sharp, D. (1876) Descriptions of some new species of Scarabaeidae from tropical Asia and Malaysia. Coleopterologische Hefte, 15, 65 - 90." type="journal article" year="1876">Sharp 1876</bibRefCitation>
) and 
<collectingCountry box="[151,218,467,493]" name="China" pageId="22" pageNumber="213">China</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation author="Zhang, Y. W." box="[233,373,467,494]" pageId="22" pageNumber="213" pagination="227 - 248" refId="ref16090" refString="Zhang, Y. W. (1988) Scarabaeidae. In: Huang, F. S., Wang, P. Y., Yin, W. Y., Yu, P. Y., Lee, T. S., Yang, C. K. &amp; Wang, X. J. (Eds.), Insects of Mt. Namjagbarwa region of Xizang. Beijing Science Press, Beijing, pp. 227 - 248. [in Chinese with English translation]" type="book chapter" year="1988">Zhang 1988</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
</document>