A new species and new records of Sericini chafers from the Lower Gangetic Plains in India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericinae) Author Bhunia, Debika 0000-0002-4129-2148 Entomology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Kalyani, Kalyani - 741235, West Bengal, India sksarkarzoo 18 @ klyuniv. ac. in; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4129 - 2148 sksarkarzoo18@klyuniv.ac.in Author Gupta, Devanshu Author Sarkar, Subhankar Kumar 0000-0002-4129-2148 Entomology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Kalyani, Kalyani - 741235, West Bengal, India sksarkarzoo 18 @ klyuniv. ac. in; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4129 - 2148 sksarkarzoo18@klyuniv.ac.in Author Ahrens, Dirk 0000-0003-3524-7153 Museum A. Koenig, Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB), Adenauerallee 127, 53113 Bonn, Germany ahrens. dirk _ col @ gmx. de; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3524 - 7153 ahrens.dirk_col@gmx.de text Zootaxa 2023 2023-10-11 5353 4 351 371 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5353.4.3 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5353.4.3 1175-5326 8430714 1C2559D4-36EC-4F3D-950B-FA5A5FFC96BC Maladera iridescens ( Blanchard, 1850 ) ( Figs 38–41 , 99 ) Omaloplia iridescens Blanchard, 1850: 77 . Serica globus Burmeister, 1855: 165 ; synonymized by Ahrens 2004b: 273 . Autoserica forsteri Frey, 1965 b: 89 ; synonymized by Ahrens 2004b: 273 . Maladera iridescens : Ahrens 2004b: 273 , 2006a: 415 ; Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016: 235 . Material examined. 1 ♁ “ India : West Bengal , Mursidabad , Betberia , 13.x.1983 , leg. A.K. Varshney ” ( NZCI ), 1 ♁ “ India : West Bengal , Bankura, Chaltha, 24.vii.2022 , leg. Suresh Chand ” ( NZCI ) . Distribution. India : Karnataka , Kerala , Maharashtra , Odisha , Uttarakhand , West Bengal (Mursidabad); Nepal and Pakistan ( Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016 ; Chandra et al. 2021 ; this paper). Remarks. This is the first state record of this species for West Bengal .