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was synonymized by
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with
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(senior name),
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, and
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<emphasis id="18F4EAE04B10FF87F172D4E6FA88F915" box="[1081,1312,1683,1707]" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="443">Maladera fusconitens</emphasis>
(
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. These last two were later revalidated by
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and
<bibRefCitation id="4E114B034B10FF87F62CD4C2FC37F971" author="Petrovitz, R." box="[871,927,1719,1743]" pageId="0" pageNumber="443" pagination="127 - 131" refId="ref1989" refString="Petrovitz, R. (1964) Neue Melolonthidae und Dynastidae aus Europa und Asien. Reichenbachia, 3 (9), 127 - 131." type="journal article" year="1964">1964</bibRefCitation>
, respectively). Since then,
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status was never questioned again.
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(hand-written
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<emphasis id="18F4EAE04B10FF87F58CD5FAFD8BF819" bold="true" box="[199,547,1935,1959]" pageId="0" pageNumber="443">Additional material examined.</emphasis>
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“678409/
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S-Peleponnes [sic],
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, Valley N Krioneri
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leg.
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” (
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)
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,
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“West-Peloponnes, Eichenwald bei Agia Triada, östl. von Amaliada,
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, leg.
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” (
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)
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.
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</subSubSection>
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<emphasis id="18F4EAE04B11FF86F5DCD1A5FEBBFC57" bold="true" box="[151,275,976,1001]" pageId="1" pageNumber="444">FIGURE 1.</emphasis>
Lectotype of
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<emphasis id="18F4EAE04B11FF86F4D5D1A4FDE6FC57" box="[414,590,977,1001]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="444">Maladera rugosa</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="4E114B034B11FF86F710D1A5FCAFFC57" author="Blanchard, M. E." box="[603,775,976,1001]" pageId="1" pageNumber="444" refId="ref1507" refString="Blanchard, M. E. (1850) Catalogue de la collection Entomologique. Classes des Insectes. Ordre des Coleopteres. Premiere livraison. Gide et Baudry, Paris, 128 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 66985" type="book" year="1850">Blanchard, 1850</bibRefCitation>
)
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,
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. A, aedeagus, left side in lateral view; B, parameres, dorsal view; C, aedeagus, right side in lateral view (scale = 0.5 mm); D, habitus, dorsal view (not to scale); E, associated labels; F, head.
</paragraph>
</caption>
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<emphasis id="18F4EAE04B11FF86F5DCD614FEAEFBC7" bold="true" box="[151,262,1121,1145]" pageId="1" pageNumber="444">Remarks.</emphasis>
The
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(female) specimen is distinctly larger, browner and has a convexly elevated clypeus with a rugosely punctate surface.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="2A3F36F24B11FF86F58CD6DCFE6EFA27" blockId="1.[151,1437,1121,1829]" pageId="1" pageNumber="444">
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<emphasis id="18F4EAE04B11FF86F58CD6DCFE2AFB7F" box="[199,386,1193,1217]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="444">Maladera rugosa</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="4E114B034B11FF86F4DAD6DCFDEDFB7F" author="Blanchard, M. E." box="[401,581,1193,1217]" pageId="1" pageNumber="444" refId="ref1507" refString="Blanchard, M. E. (1850) Catalogue de la collection Entomologique. Classes des Insectes. Ordre des Coleopteres. Premiere livraison. Gide et Baudry, Paris, 128 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 66985" type="book" year="1850">Blanchard, 1850</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="03C7579B4B11FF86F71FD6DCFCA5FB7F" box="[596,781,1193,1217]" pageId="1" pageNumber="444" rank="species">new combination</taxonomicNameLabel>
was originally described from
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(Moreé,
<emphasis id="18F4EAE04B11FF86F046D6DFFA85FB7F" box="[1293,1325,1194,1217]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="444">i.e.</emphasis>
,
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), as well as
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<emphasis id="18F4EAE04B11FF86F403D6BBFE1DFB5B" box="[328,437,1230,1253]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="444">M. graeca</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="4E114B034B11FF86F4F0D6B8FDC9FB5B" author="Petrovitz, R." box="[443,609,1229,1253]" pageId="1" pageNumber="444" pagination="383 - 400" refId="ref2016" refString="Petrovitz, R. (1969) Ergebnisse zoologischer Sammelreisen in der Tu ¨ rkei: Lamellicornia, Coleoptera. Dritte Folge. Die mediter- ranen Arten der Gattung Maladera Mulsant. Lamellicornia, Coleoptera. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, 73, 383 - 400." type="journal article" year="1969">Petrovitz, 1969</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
. The synonymy of
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<emphasis id="18F4EAE04B11FF86F661D6B8FC4BFB5B" box="[810,995,1229,1253]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="444">Maladera rugosa</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="4E114B034B11FF86F6BBD6B8FB0BFB5B" author="Blanchard, M. E." box="[1008,1187,1229,1253]" pageId="1" pageNumber="444" refId="ref1507" refString="Blanchard, M. E. (1850) Catalogue de la collection Entomologique. Classes des Insectes. Ordre des Coleopteres. Premiere livraison. Gide et Baudry, Paris, 128 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 66985" type="book" year="1850">Blanchard, 1850</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
with
<taxonomicName id="ED804D714B11FF86F1AED6BBFEC4FAB7" authority="(Faldermann, 1835)" baseAuthorityName="Faldermann" baseAuthorityYear="1835" class="Insecta" family="Melolonthidae" genus="Maladera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="444" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="punctatissima">
<emphasis id="18F4EAE04B11FF86F1AED6BBFA34FB5B" box="[1253,1436,1230,1253]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="444">M. punctatissima</emphasis>
(Faldermann, 1835)
</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation id="4E114B034B11FF86F430D684FDBCFAB7" author="Brenske, E." box="[379,532,1265,1289]" pageId="1" pageNumber="444" pagination="345 - 468" refId="ref1556" refString="Brenske, E. (1897) Die Serica - Arten der Erde. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift, 42, 345 - 468. https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / mmnd. 18970420310" type="journal article" year="1897">Brenske 1897</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="4E114B034B11FF86F76BD684FD68FAB7" author="Petrovitz, R." box="[544,704,1265,1289]" pageId="1" pageNumber="444" pagination="383 - 400" refId="ref2016" refString="Petrovitz, R. (1969) Ergebnisse zoologischer Sammelreisen in der Tu ¨ rkei: Lamellicornia, Coleoptera. Dritte Folge. Die mediter- ranen Arten der Gattung Maladera Mulsant. Lamellicornia, Coleoptera. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, 73, 383 - 400." type="journal article" year="1969">Petrovitz 1969</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="4E114B034B11FF86F780D684FCFFFAB7" author="Ahrens, D." box="[715,855,1265,1289]" pageId="1" pageNumber="444" pagination="229 - 248" refId="ref1347" refString="Ahrens, D. (2006) Sericinae. In: Lobl, I. &amp; Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 3. Scarabaeoidea- Scirtoidea-Dascilloidea-Buprestoidea-Byrrhoidea. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, pp. 229 - 248." type="book chapter" year="2006">Ahrens 2006</bibRefCitation>
, 2007;
<bibRefCitation id="4E114B034B11FF86F6EDD684FB0EFAB7" author="Ahrens, D. &amp; Bezdek, A." box="[934,1190,1265,1289]" pageId="1" pageNumber="444" pagination="281 - 317" refId="ref1395" refString="Ahrens, D. &amp; Bezdek, A. (2016) Sericini. In: Lobl, I. &amp; Lobl, D. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 3. Scarabaeoidea-Scirtoidea-Dascilloidea-Buprestoidea-Byrrhoidea. Revised and Updated Edition. Brill, Leiden, Boston, pp. 281 - 317." type="book chapter" year="2016">Ahrens &amp; Bezděk 2016</bibRefCitation>
) was never doubted or ever properly checked while
<bibRefCitation id="4E114B034B11FF86F484D760FDD6FA93" author="Petrovitz, R." box="[463,638,1301,1325]" pageId="1" pageNumber="444" pagination="383 - 400" refId="ref2016" refString="Petrovitz, R. (1969) Ergebnisse zoologischer Sammelreisen in der Tu ¨ rkei: Lamellicornia, Coleoptera. Dritte Folge. Die mediter- ranen Arten der Gattung Maladera Mulsant. Lamellicornia, Coleoptera. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, 73, 383 - 400." type="journal article" year="1969">Petrovitz (1969)</bibRefCitation>
erected a number of new and closely related species from
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,
<collectingCountry id="529776624B11FF86F01BD760FA34FA93" box="[1360,1436,1301,1325]" name="Turkey" pageId="1" pageNumber="444">Turkey</collectingCountry>
and Near East. Brenske obviously has seen at least one of the
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(the specimen bears a label with his handwriting), but he did not examine the genitalia (his specimen is very likely a female that was strongly damaged by dermestids) of the intact
<typeStatus id="F53B88504B11FF86F44BD7F4FEFBFA27" box="[256,339,1409,1433]" pageId="1" pageNumber="444" type="syntype">syntype</typeStatus>
specimen.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="2A3F36F24B11FF86F58CD7D0FED7F9F2" blockId="1.[151,1437,1121,1829]" pageId="1" pageNumber="444">
Male genitalia of the
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of
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<emphasis id="18F4EAE04B11FF86F767D7D0FD4DFA03" box="[556,741,1445,1469]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="444">Maladera rugosa</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="4E114B034B11FF86F7B9D7D0FC0FFA03" author="Blanchard, M. E." box="[754,935,1445,1469]" pageId="1" pageNumber="444" refId="ref1507" refString="Blanchard, M. E. (1850) Catalogue de la collection Entomologique. Classes des Insectes. Ordre des Coleopteres. Premiere livraison. Gide et Baudry, Paris, 128 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 66985" type="book" year="1850">Blanchard, 1850</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
, which have been compared with the drawings of the original publication of
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<emphasis id="18F4EAE04B11FF86F49AD7BFFD97FA5F" box="[465,575,1482,1505]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="444">M. graeca</emphasis>
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, result to be virtually identical to with the latter, thus,
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<emphasis id="18F4EAE04B11FF86F1CFD7BFFB5AFA5F" box="[1156,1266,1482,1505]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="444">M. graeca</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="4E114B034B11FF86F1B2D7BCFA34FA5F" author="Petrovitz, R." box="[1273,1436,1481,1505]" pageId="1" pageNumber="444" pagination="383 - 400" refId="ref2016" refString="Petrovitz, R. (1969) Ergebnisse zoologischer Sammelreisen in der Tu ¨ rkei: Lamellicornia, Coleoptera. Dritte Folge. Die mediter- ranen Arten der Gattung Maladera Mulsant. Lamellicornia, Coleoptera. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, 73, 383 - 400." type="journal article" year="1969">Petrovitz, 1969</bibRefCitation>
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has to be considered a junior synonym of
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<emphasis id="18F4EAE04B11FF86F705D798FCAEF9BB" box="[590,774,1517,1541]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="444">Maladera rugosa</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="4E114B034B11FF86F65FD798FC61F9BB" author="Blanchard, M. E." box="[788,969,1517,1541]" pageId="1" pageNumber="444" refId="ref1507" refString="Blanchard, M. E. (1850) Catalogue de la collection Entomologique. Classes des Insectes. Ordre des Coleopteres. Premiere livraison. Gide et Baudry, Paris, 128 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 66985" type="book" year="1850">Blanchard, 1850</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
. The nearly sympatrical
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<emphasis id="18F4EAE04B11FF86F198D798FA34F9BB" box="[1235,1436,1517,1541]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="444">Maladera krueperi</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="4E114B034B11FF86F5DCD464FE96F997" author="Petrovitz, R." box="[151,318,1553,1577]" pageId="1" pageNumber="444" pagination="383 - 400" refId="ref2016" refString="Petrovitz, R. (1969) Ergebnisse zoologischer Sammelreisen in der Tu ¨ rkei: Lamellicornia, Coleoptera. Dritte Folge. Die mediter- ranen Arten der Gattung Maladera Mulsant. Lamellicornia, Coleoptera. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, 73, 383 - 400." type="journal article" year="1969">Petrovitz, 1969</bibRefCitation>
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, also described from
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(
<collectingRegion id="E844F8104B11FF86F735D464FCA3F997" box="[638,779,1553,1577]" country="Greece" name="Peloponnisos" pageId="1" pageNumber="444">Peloponnese</collectingRegion>
), seems to be well distinct by the strongly arched dorsal lobe of the right paramere.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="2A3F36F24B11FF86F58CD42CFAC5F89A" blockId="1.[151,1437,1121,1829]" pageId="1" pageNumber="444">
Given the quite striking morphological similarity of
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<emphasis id="18F4EAE04B11FF86F7BCD42CFC19F9CF" box="[759,945,1625,1649]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="444">Maladera rugosa</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="4E114B034B11FF86F6F4D42CFBDAF9CF" author="Blanchard, M. E." box="[959,1138,1625,1649]" pageId="1" pageNumber="444" refId="ref1507" refString="Blanchard, M. E. (1850) Catalogue de la collection Entomologique. Classes des Insectes. Ordre des Coleopteres. Premiere livraison. Gide et Baudry, Paris, 128 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 66985" type="book" year="1850">Blanchard, 1850</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
with other species, such as
<taxonomicName id="ED804D714B11FF86F5DCD40BFE7AF92B" authority="Petrovitz, 1969" authorityName="Petrovitz" authorityYear="1969" box="[151,466,1661,1685]" class="Insecta" family="Melolonthidae" genus="Maladera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="444" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="apfelbecki">
<emphasis id="18F4EAE04B11FF86F5DCD40BFE81F92B" box="[151,297,1661,1685]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="444">M. apfelbecki</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="4E114B034B11FF86F464D408FE7AF92B" author="Petrovitz, R." box="[303,466,1661,1685]" pageId="1" pageNumber="444" pagination="383 - 400" refId="ref2016" refString="Petrovitz, R. (1969) Ergebnisse zoologischer Sammelreisen in der Tu ¨ rkei: Lamellicornia, Coleoptera. Dritte Folge. Die mediter- ranen Arten der Gattung Maladera Mulsant. Lamellicornia, Coleoptera. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, 73, 383 - 400." type="journal article" year="1969">Petrovitz, 1969</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
from
<collectingCountry id="529776624B11FF86F759D408FDCEF92B" box="[530,614,1661,1685]" name="Albania" pageId="1" pageNumber="444">Albania</collectingCountry>
and
<taxonomicName id="ED804D714B11FF86F7D1D40BFC11F92B" authority="Petrovitz, 1969" authorityName="Petrovitz" authorityYear="1969" box="[666,953,1661,1685]" class="Insecta" family="Melolonthidae" genus="Maladera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="444" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="villiersi">
<emphasis id="18F4EAE04B11FF86F7D1D40BFCA7F92B" box="[666,783,1661,1685]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="444">M. villiersi</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="4E114B034B11FF86F65DD408FC11F92B" author="Petrovitz, R." box="[790,953,1661,1685]" pageId="1" pageNumber="444" pagination="383 - 400" refId="ref2016" refString="Petrovitz, R. (1969) Ergebnisse zoologischer Sammelreisen in der Tu ¨ rkei: Lamellicornia, Coleoptera. Dritte Folge. Die mediter- ranen Arten der Gattung Maladera Mulsant. Lamellicornia, Coleoptera. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, 73, 383 - 400." type="journal article" year="1969">Petrovitz, 1969</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
from
<collectingCountry id="529776624B11FF86F6B0D408FB9EF92B" box="[1019,1078,1661,1685]" name="Syria" pageId="1" pageNumber="444">Syria</collectingCountry>
, the necessity to clarify the status of
<taxonomicName id="ED804D714B11FF86F5FDD4D4FE62F907" authority="Kuster, 1849" authorityName="Kuster" authorityYear="1849" box="[182,458,1697,1721]" class="Insecta" family="Melolonthidae" genus="Serica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="444" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="elata">
<emphasis id="18F4EAE04B11FF86F5FDD4D4FE9FF907" box="[182,311,1697,1721]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="444">Serica elata</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="4E114B034B11FF86F40BD4D4FE62F907" author="Kuster, H. C." box="[320,458,1697,1721]" pageId="1" pageNumber="444" refId="ref1821" refString="Kuster, H. C. (1849) Die Kafer Europas nach der Natur beschrieben. Heft 18. Bauer und Raspe, Nurnberg, 2 + 100 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 110110" type="book" year="1849">Küster, 1849</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
(since
<bibRefCitation id="4E114B034B11FF86F750D4D4FD6AF907" author="Brenske, E." box="[539,706,1697,1721]" pageId="1" pageNumber="444" pagination="345 - 468" refId="ref1556" refString="Brenske, E. (1897) Die Serica - Arten der Erde. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift, 42, 345 - 468. https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / mmnd. 18970420310" type="journal article" year="1897">Brenske (1897)</bibRefCitation>
a junior synonym of
<taxonomicName id="ED804D714B11FF86F6FBD4D7FBC1F907" baseAuthorityName="Faldermann" baseAuthorityYear="1835" box="[944,1129,1698,1721]" class="Insecta" family="Melolonthidae" genus="Maladera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="444" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="punctatissima">
<emphasis id="18F4EAE04B11FF86F6FBD4D7FBC1F907" box="[944,1129,1698,1721]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="444">M. punctatissima</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
but unlikely to be synonym of the latter, since it was described from
<collectingCountry id="529776624B11FF86F700D4B0FD7AF963" box="[587,722,1733,1757]" name="Serbia" pageId="1" pageNumber="444">Montenegro</collectingCountry>
), and given a quite well geographically pronounced morphological variation in all species of the subgenus
<taxonomicName id="ED804D714B11FF86F709D49FFC2EF8BF" authority="Medvedev, 1952" authorityName="Medvedev" authorityYear="1952" box="[578,902,1769,1793]" class="Insecta" family="Melolonthidae" genus="Maladera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="444" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subGenus" subGenus="Macroserica">
<emphasis id="18F4EAE04B11FF86F709D49FFD61F8BF" box="[578,713,1770,1793]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="444">Macroserica</emphasis>
Medvedev, 1952
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, there is evident a great need of a comprehensive study of the geographical variation of the populations and species in a context of a subsequent taxonomic treatment.
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