Maladera pseudohongkongica

Maladera pseudohongkongica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Scarabaeiformia
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Genus:	Maladera
Species:	M. pseudohongkongica
Binomial name
Maladera pseudohongkongica Ahrens & Fabrizi, 2016 [1]

Maladera pseudohongkongica is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in Bangladesh, India (Assam, Jharkhand, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh), Myanmar, Thailand and China (Yunnan). ^[2]

Description

Adults reach a length of about 10.2–12.2 mm. They have a dark brown, oblong-oval body, with yellowish antennae. The dorsal surface is mostly dull and glabrous, except for a few short setae on the sides of the elytra. ^[3]

Etymology

The species name is derived from the combined Greek prefix pseudo (meaning false) and the species name hongkongica and refers to the high similarity with Maladera hongkongica . ^[3]

References

1. BioLib
2. Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Maladera (Omaladera) pseudohongkongica at Catalogue of Life". World Scarabaeidae Database (version 2025-10-07). In O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D. R. Hernández Robles, C. A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, T. Pape, D. Hobern, S. Garnett, H. Little, R. E. DeWalt, J. Miller, T. Orrell, & R. Aalbu, Catalogue of Life (2025-10-10 XR). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Catalogue of Life Foundation. Retrieved November 6, 2025.
3. Fabrizi, Silvia; Ahrens, Dirk (2016). "A monograph of Sericini of India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)". Bonn Zoological Bulletin Supplementum. 65: 1–355. Retrieved November 6, 2025.  This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.