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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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<mods:namePart>Gupta, Devanshu</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Keith, Denis</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Ghosh, Joyjit</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Chandra, Kailash</mods:namePart>
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proposed the 
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group based on a single species, 
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<emphasis box="[1009,1287,1969,1995]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="197">Melolontha phupanensis</emphasis>
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, described from 
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. We place both newly described species, 
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(refer to the key to species groups). The parameres in this group are symmetric, elongated, subequal in length with phallobase and outer margins parallel at the apical three-fourth part.
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