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Extended data Figure 1 – SNAP2 results of CaORC4
No full textSNAP2 results of CaORC4. Analysis of CaORC4 protein sequence in SNAP299 demonstrates that the tyrosine (Y273) marked with a black arrow to be affected with high score and accuracy which means that this residue is indispensable and any mutation of this residue affects the function of the protein. The table lists the score and the percent accuracy of the prediction.Related Publication:
Identification and in silico analysis of the origin recognition complex in the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans
Sreedevi Padmanabhan Molecular Biology Laboratory, Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University, Jaunpur- 222003, Uttar Pradesh, India.
microPublication Biology
2021-09-13
https://doi.org/10.17912/micropub.biology.000465
engContact person: Sreedevi Padmanabhan [email protected]
Extended data Figure 2 -Comparative profile of percentage identity of CaORC proteins with other yeasts.
No full textComparative profile of percentage identity of CaORC proteins with other yeasts. The hexameric ORC complex containing ORC1-6 protein sequences are compared individually with diverse yeast species whose genome database is publicly available (Priyam et al., 2019, Shen et al., 2016) and their percent identity is plotted using Graphpad Prism. (A) Percent identity of 104 hits of ORC1 sequences. (B) Percent identity of 86 hits of ORC2 sequences. (C) Percent identity of 90 hits of ORC3 sequences (D). Percent identity of 104 hits of ORC4 sequences. (E)Percent identity of 88 hits of ORC5 sequences. (F) Percent identity of 69 hits of ORC6 sequences.Related Publication:
Identification and in silico analysis of the origin recognition complex in the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans
Sreedevi Padmanabhan Molecular Biology Laboratory, Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University, Jaunpur- 222003, Uttar Pradesh, India.
microPublication Biology
2021-09-13
https://doi.org/10.17912/micropub.biology.000465
engContact person: Sreedevi Padmanabhan [email protected]
Extended Data tables
No full textTable 1. Putative pre-RC proteins coded by the C. albicans genome
Table 2. Comparison of putative CaORC sequences with ORC sequences of S. cerevisiae and S. pombe. The systematic names, ORF and protein length along with isoelectric pH of the ORC1-6 in S. cerevisiae, S. pombe and C. albicans.
Table 3.Pairwise alignment results of CaORC proteins with other eukaryotes
Sc – Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Sp – Schizosaccharomyces pombe; Ca – Candida albicans; Dm – Drosophila melanogaster; Xl – Xenopus laevis; Mm – Mus musculus; Hs – Homo sapiens
Table 4. Comparison of Walker A and Walker B motifs of CaORC proteins with other species
Table 5. Putative signature of Walker motifs in CaORC proteins
Table 6. Domains of C.albicans ORC proteins compared with other eukaryotes
Table 7. Comparison of the Clustal W scores and lengths of the ORC associated proteins in S. cerevisiae and S. pombe with C. albicans.
Sc – Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Sp – Schizosaccharomyces pombe; Ca – Candida albicans
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Table 8. Cscore values of CaORC proteins
Table 9. SMART predictions of pre-RC proteins' interactionsRelated Publication:
Identification and in silico analysis of the origin recognition complex in the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans
Sreedevi Padmanabhan Molecular Biology Laboratory, Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University, Jaunpur- 222003, Uttar Pradesh, India.
microPublication Biology
2021-09-13
https://doi.org/10.17912/micropub.biology.000465
engContact person: Sreedevi Padmanabhan [email protected]
Extended dataset - Comprehensive profile of the CaORC protein sequences on comparison with the publicly available yeast databases.
No full textComprehensive profile of the CaORC protein sequences on comparison with the publicly available yeast databases. To determine the sequence identity of CaORC across 86 diverse publicly available yeast databases, a TBLASTN was performed in the Sequenceserver (http://blast.wei.wisc.edu/) with CaORC proteins as the query sequence. All the fields are mentioned individually for CaORC1-6 proteins individually: query id, query gi, query acc., subject id, subject ids, subject gi, subject gis, subject accession, subject accessions., query start, query end, sequene start, sequence end, query sequence, subject sequence, evalue, bit score, score, alignment length, % identity, identical a.a., mismatches, positives, gap opens, gaps, % positives, query/subject frames, query frame, BTOP, subject tax ids, subject scientific names, subject common names, subject blast names, subject super kingdoms, subject title, subject titles, subject strand, % query coverage per subject, % query coverage per hsp. N/A means Not applicable/Not available.Related Publication:
Identification and in silico analysis of the origin recognition complex in the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans
Padmanabhan, Sreedevi Molecular Biology Laboratory, Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University, Jaunpur- 222003, Uttar Pradesh, India.
microPublication Biology
2021-09-13
https://doi.org/10.17912/micropub.biology.000465
engContact person: Sreedevi Padmanabhan [email protected]
Maladera mizoramensis Sreedevi, Speer, Fabrizi & Ahrens 2018
No full textMaladera mizoramensis Sreedevi, Speer, Fabrizi & Ahrens, 2018 Material examined. 1 male: “ India: Maharashtra, Satara, Kass Plateue, 03.xi.2012, leg. K. Chandra ” (NZSI). Remark. This is first state record of this species for Maharashtra, known earlier from Mizoram (Sreedevi et al. 2018).Published as part of Chandra, Kailash, Ahrens, Dirk, Bhunia, Debika, Sreedevi, Kolla & Gupta, Devanshu, 2021, New species and records of Sericini from India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae Melolonthinae), pp. 492-510 in Zootaxa 4951 (3) on page 505, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4951.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/466821
Oxyserica goertzae Sreedevi, Ranasinghe, Fabrizi & Ahrens 2019
No full text<i>Oxyserica goertzae</i> Sreedevi, Ranasinghe, Fabrizi & Ahrens, 2019 <p> <i>Oxyserica goertzae</i> Sreedevi, Ranasinghe, Fabrizi & Ahrens, 2019: 17.</p> <p> <b>Material examined.</b> See Sreedevi <i>et al</i>. (2019: p. 17).</p> <p> <b>Aedeagus.</b> See Sreedevi <i>et al.</i> (2019: p. 19; Fig. 3E–H).</p> <p> <b>Distribution.</b> Central Nepal.</p>Published as part of <i>Ahrens, Dirk, Liu, Wangang, Lukic, Daniel & Bai, Ming, 2023, A taxonomic review of Microserica Brenske, 1894 from continental Asia (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), pp. 1-115 in Zootaxa 5241 (1)</i> on page 70, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5241.1.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/7639734">http://zenodo.org/record/7639734</a>
Maladera kaimurensis Chandra, Ahrens, Bhunia, Sreedevi & Gupta 2021, new species
No full textMaladera kaimurensis Chandra, Ahrens, Bhunia, Sreedevi & Gupta, new species (Figs. 1–4) Type locality. India: Uttar Pradesh, Mirzapur, Kaimur Wildlife Sanctuary, 30.2622N, 77.63105933E. Type material. Holotype, male: “ India: Uttar Pradesh, Mirzapur, Kaimur Wildlife Sanctuary, 30.2622N, 77.63105933E, 30.vii.1999, leg. Kailash Chandra ” (NZSI). The specimen bear a red printed label: “ Maladera kaimurensis sp. nov., HOLOTYPE, Kailash Chandra, Dirk Ahrens, Debika Bhunia, Kolla Sreedevi & Devanshu Gupta, Det. 2020”. Description (holotype, male). Body. Length: 9.8 mm, length of elytra: 7.7 mm, width: 6.5 mm. Body oblong-oval; dorsal face dark brown; ventral face dark reddish-brown dull; head moderately shiny, surface glabrous, except few single setae. Head. Labroclypeus narrow and trapezoidal, widest at base; lateral margins straight and convergent anteriorly; anterior angles strongly rounded; anterior margin distinctly emarginate medially, margins moderately reflexed. Antennae with ten antennomeres; club with three straight antennomeres,slightly shorter than remaining antennomeres combined. Lateral margin and ocular canthus produced into a distinct angle, surface flat, finely and densely punctate. Frontoclypeal suture indistinctly incised, evenly curved. Smooth area anterior to eye weakly convex, twice as wide as long; ocular canthus short and moderately narrow (1/4 of ocular diameter), finely and densely punctate, terminal seta absent. Mentum elevated and slightly flattened anteriorly. Frons with dense, but fine punctures and with a single, long seta beside eyes. Eyes small, ratio diameter/interocular width: 0.93. Pronotum transverse, widest shortly before base; lateral margins evenly convex and strongly convergent anteriorly, slightly convexly narrowed towards base; anterior angles distinctly produced and sharp; posterior angles strongly rounded; anterior margin convex, with complete but indistinct marginal line; base without marginal line; surface densely and finely punctate, punctures less dense on midline, with minute setae in punctures; anterior and lateral margin finely setose; hypomeron carinate, not produced ventrally. Scutellum wide, triangular, with fine, and dense punctures, punctures less dense on basal midline. Elytra widest at middle; striae distinctly impressed, finely and sparsely punctate; intervals slightly convex, with fine and dense punctures, with minute setae in punctures; odd intervals with a very few short and white setae; epipleural edge robust, ending at strongly curved external apical angle of elytra; epipleura sparsely setose; apical border of elytra membranous, with a fine rim of microtrichomes. Ventral surface dull, coarsely and densely punctate, glabrous. Metasternal disc sparsely covered with fine, short setae. Metacoxa with a few longer setae laterally. Abdominal sternites finely and densely punctate, sternites with a transverse row of punctures, punctures bearing a fine seta. Mesosternum between mesocoxae as wide as mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/2.1. Pygidium moderately convex and dull, coarsely and densely punctate, without impunctate midline, glabrous except a few robust setae along apical margin. Legs moderately long and wide, shiny; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and sparsely punctate. Metafemur with anterior margin acute, without adjacent serrated line, but with few sparse setae; posterior margin smooth, weakly widened at apex, smooth at apex ventrally. Metatibia long and wide; widest at middle, sharply carinate dorsally, with two groups of spines, longer at basal group at anterior third, smaller at apical group at three quarters of metatibial length, ratio of width/length: 1/2.56; lateral face longitudinally convex, shiny, impunctate and glabrous; ventral margin densely serrate, with four equidistant long and robust setae; medial face smooth and glabrous; apex finely serrate, moderately truncate interiorly near tarsal articulation. Tarsomeres dorsally impunctate, glabrous, neither laterally nor dorsally carinate, moderately setose ventrally; metatarsomeres with a strongly serrated ridge ventrally and a smooth subventral longitudinal carina; first metatarsomere as long as following two tarsomeres combined and slightly longer than dorsal tibial spur. Protibia moderately long, bidentate; anterior claws symmetrical, basal tooth of both claws bluntly truncate at apex. Aedeagus. Figs. 1–3. Habitus. Fig. 4. Female. unknown. Etymology. The name (adjective in the nominative singular) refers to the type locality, Kaimur Wildlife Sanctuary (India). Distribution. Only known from the type locality (Fig. 21). Differential diagnosis. Maladera kaimurensis new species is similar to M. mizoramensis Sreedevi, Speer, Fabrizi & Ahrens, 2018 in the shape of the male genitalia and its external morphology. The new species differs from M. mizoramensis by the more elongate phallobase, and different parameres (Figs. 1– 3).Published as part of Chandra, Kailash, Ahrens, Dirk, Bhunia, Debika, Sreedevi, Kolla & Gupta, Devanshu, 2021, New species and records of Sericini from India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae Melolonthinae), pp. 492-510 in Zootaxa 4951 (3) on pages 493-494, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4951.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/466821
Lepidoserica barapaniensis Chandra, Ahrens, Bhunia, Sreedevi & Gupta 2021, new species
No full textLepidoserica barapaniensis Chandra, Ahrens, Bhunia, Sreedevi & Gupta, new species (Figs. 17–20) Type locality. India: Meghalaya, Umiam, Barapani, 996 m, 25° 40’ 1.2936’’ N, 91° 54’ 17.1072’’ E. Type material. Holotype, male: “ India: Meghalaya, Umiam, Barapani, 996 m, 25° 40’ 1.2936’’ N, 91° 54’ 17.1072’’ E 21.vi.2019, leg. Niranjan /1071 Sericini: Asia spec./ICAR–NBAIR– S17” (NBAIR). The specimen bears a red printed label: “ Maladera barapaniensis sp. nov., HOLOTYPE, Kailash Chandra, Dirk Ahrens, Debika Bhunia, Kolla Sreedevi & Devanshu Gupta, Det. 2020”. Description (holotype, male). Body. Length: 8.3 mm, length of elytra: 5.9 mm, width: 4.7 mm. Body oblong, yellowish-brown and shiny, dorsal face with dense darker spots of different size, dark spots and dark frons with some greenish shine; antenna yellow; dorsal surface sparsely setose, with fine minute and white scales on elytra and pronotum. Head. Labroclypeus subtrapezoidal, widest at base, lateral margins convex and convergent to strongly rounded anterior angles, lateral margin and ocular canthus producing a distinct obtuse angle, anterior margin concavely emarginate, margins weakly reflexed; labrum elongate and medially produced; surface flat and shiny, basal quarter with iridescent toment, finely and densely punctate, with a few long erect setae behind anterior margin; frontoclypeal suture indistinctly incised, flat and moderately curved; smooth area anterior to eye twice as wide as long. Ocular canthus moderately long and narrow, impunctate, without a short terminal seta. Frons with iridescent dark toment, finely and densely punctate, with numerous fine, short setae being bent backwards. Eyes moderately large, ratio of diameter/interocular width: 0.61. Antenna with ten antennomeres, club with six antennomeres, straight, as long as remaining antennomeres combined, basal labella shorter than club. Mentum elevated and flattened anteriorly. Pronotum widest at base, lateral margins weakly convex and weakly convergent anteriorly, anterior angles weakly produced, well rounded, posterior angles nearly rectangular; anterior margin straight, with a fine marginal line; basal margin without marginal line; surface with dense and fine punctures, each bearing a minute seta or a short, white scale, along basal midline impunctate; anterior and lateral borders sparsely finely setose; hypomeron carinate, basal margin of hypomeron strongly produced ventrally. Scutellum subtriangular, apex sharp, with fine and very dense punctures and with fine white scales, impunctate along midline. Elytra oblong, widest in posterior third, striae distinctly impressed, with fine and dense punctures; intervals convex, with fine and moderately dense punctures concentrated along striae, punctures on all intervals with short white scales, otherwise punctures with minute setae only; epipleural edge moderately strong, ending at strongly rounded external apical angle of elytra, epipleura sparsely setose; apical border without a rim of short microtrichomes. Ventral surface shiny and yellow, with fine and dense punctures, finely and densely setose, metacoxa glabrous, only laterally with a few fine, adpressed setae. Abdominal sternites finely and densely punctate and minutely setose, each sternite with a distinct transverse row of coarse punctures each bearing a short, robust seta, abdominal sternites without any tubercles or elevations. Mesosternum between mesocoxae as wide as mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/1.88. Pygidium moderately convex and moderately shiny, with fine, dense punctures and fine short and longer setae. Legs moderately long and narrow. Metafemur dull, anterior edge acute, without adjacent serrated line, anterior longitudinal row of setae present; posterior ventral margin almost straight, weakly widened in apical half not serrate, dorsal posterior margin serrated, glabrous. Metatibia moderately long and wide, widest at before apex; flattened, ratio width/length: 1/3.3, dorsal margin sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal one at middle and apical one at three-quarters of metatibial length, basally with a few fine and short setae; lateral face flat and weakly longitudinally conave, without punctures; medial face impunctate, apex shallowly and concavely emarginate interiorly near tarsal articulation. Tarsomeres impunctate dorsally, with dense, fine setae ventrally. Meso- and metatarsomeres lacking in holotype. Protibia short, bidentate. Anterior claws symmetrical. Aedeagus. Figs. 17–19. Habitus. Fig. 20. Female unknown. Etymology. The new species is named after its type locality, Barapani (adjective in the nominative case singular). Distribution. Only known from the type locality (Fig. 21). However, Lepidoserica barapaniensis new species occurs nearly sympatrically with Lepidoserica maculifera (Brenske, 1894) in central Meghalaya, while the latter is widely distributed over nearly all Khasi Hills. Differential diagnosis. Lepidoserica barapaniensis new species differs from the very similar to Lepidoserica maculifera (Brenske, 1894) in the shape of parameres: right paramere is basally much more widened (Figs. 17–19). However, none of the specimens of the latter (and neither in L. polyphylla (Moser, 1920)) have such a widened base of right paramere as found in Lepidoserica barapaniensis new species.Published as part of Chandra, Kailash, Ahrens, Dirk, Bhunia, Debika, Sreedevi, Kolla & Gupta, Devanshu, 2021, New species and records of Sericini from India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae Melolonthinae), pp. 492-510 in Zootaxa 4951 (3) on pages 498-500, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4951.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/466821
Maladera silviafabriziae Chandra, Ahrens, Bhunia, Sreedevi & Gupta 2021, new species
No full textMaladera silviafabriziae Chandra, Ahrens, Bhunia, Sreedevi & Gupta, new species (Figs. 5–8) Type locality. India: Andaman and Nicobar, Tugapur, Maya Bundar, 12.9131N, 92.8977E. Type material. Holotype, male: “ India: Andaman and Nicobar, Forest adjoining to Rest House, Tugapur, Maya Bundar. 12.9131N, 92.8977E, 13.v.1971, leg. B.K. Tikadar ” (NZSI). The specimen bears a red printed label: “ Maladera silviafabriziae sp. n., HOLOTYPE, Kailash Chandra, Dirk Ahrens, Debika Bhunia, Kolla Sreedevi & Devanshu Gupta, Det. 2020”. Description (holotype, male). Body. Length: 8.2 mm, length of elytra: 6.3 mm, width: 5.4 mm. Body oblong-oval, dorsal face dark reddishbrown, ventral face dark yellowish-brown, moderately shiny, head moderately shiny, except some single setae on head dorsal surface nearly glabrous. Head. Labroclypeus narrow and trapezoidal, widest at base, lateral margins straight and convergent anteriorly, anterior angles strongly rounded, anterior margin distinctly emarginate, margins moderately reflexed; lateral margin and ocular canthus produce a distinct angle; surface flat, finely and densely punctate, with a few larger punctures each bearing an erect seta; frontoclypeal suture indistinctly incised, evenly curved; smooth area anterior to eye weakly convex, twice as wide as long; Frons with dense, fine punctures; frons with fine dense fine punctures, with a single long seta beside eyes; eyes moderately large. ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.91; antennae with ten antennomeres; club with three antennomeres and straight, slightly shorter than remaining antennomeres combined; ocular canthus short and moderately narrow, finely and densely punctate, terminal seta absent; mentum elevated and slightly flattened anteriorly. Pronotum transverse, widest shortly before base, lateral margins evenly convex and moderately convergent anteriorly, slightly convexly narrowed towards base; anterior angles distinctly produced and moderately sharp, posterior angles distinctly rounded; anterior margin convex, with complete but indistinct marginal line, base without marginal line; surface densely and finely punctate, punctures less dense on midline, with minute setae in punctures; anterior and lateral margin finely setose. Hypomeron carinate. Scutellum triangular, slender, punctures with fine, dense punctures, apical and lower apical midline without punctures; basal midline with less dense midline. Elytra widest at middle, striae distinctly impressed, finely and sparsely punctate, intervals moderately convex, with fine and dense punctures, with minute setae in punctures, odd intervals with a very few short; epipleural edge robust, ending at strongly curved external apical angle of elytra, epipleura sparsely setose; apical border of elytra membranous, with a fine rim of microtrichomes. Ventral surface dull, coarsely and densely punctate, glabrous, metasternal disc sparsely covered with fine, short setae; metacoxa with a few longer setae laterally. Abdominal sternites finely and densely punctate, glabrous, each sternite with a transverse row of punctures each bearing a fine seta. Mesosternum between mesocoxae as wide as mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/1.99. Pygidium moderately convex and dull, coarsely and densely punctate, without impunctate midline, glabrous except a few robust setae along apical margin. Legs moderately long and wide, shiny; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and sparsely punctate. Metafemur with anterior margin acute, without adjacent serrated line, anterior row of setae reduced to a few single setae; posterior margin smooth, weakly widened at apex and smooth ventrally, not serrate dorsally, finely shortly setose. Metatibia moderately long and wide, widest at middle, ratio of width/length: 1/2.67, sharply carinate dorsally, with two groups of spines, basal group at middle, apical group at three quarters of metatibial length, with a few robust setae basally subparallel to dorsal margin; lateral face longitudinally convex, shiny, impunctate and glabrous; ventral margin finely serrate, with four equidistant long and robust setae; medial face smooth and glabrous; apex finely serrate, moderately truncate interiorly near tarsal articulation. Tarsomeres dorsally impunctate, glabrous, neither laterally nor dorsally carinate, moderately setose ventrally; metatarsomeres with a strongly serrated ridge ventrally and a smooth subventral longitudinal carina; first metatarsomere as long as following two tarsomeres combined and slightly longer than dorsal tibial spur. Aedeagus. Figs. 5–7. Habitus. Fig. 8. Female unknown. Etymology. This new species name (noun in the genitive case) is dedicated to the Italian taxonomist, Silvia Fabrizi, in recognition of her contribution to Melolonthinae beetle taxonomy, especially on Sericini. Distribution. Only known from the type locality (Fig. 21). Differential diagnosis. Maladera silviafabriziae new species is in the shape of the genitalia and its external morphology similar to M. mizoramensis. The new species differs from M. mizoramensis, as the shape of parameres has distinct structural differences and aedeagus is much longer (Figs. 5–7).Published as part of Chandra, Kailash, Ahrens, Dirk, Bhunia, Debika, Sreedevi, Kolla & Gupta, Devanshu, 2021, New species and records of Sericini from India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae Melolonthinae), pp. 492-510 in Zootaxa 4951 (3) on pages 494-495, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4951.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/466821
Maladera tripuraensis Chandra, Ahrens, Bhunia, Sreedevi & Gupta 2021, new species
No full textMaladera tripuraensis Chandra, Ahrens, Bhunia, Sreedevi & Gupta, new species (Figs. 13–16) Type locality. India: Tripura, North Tripura, 29 m, 23°35’N, 91°52’E. Type material. Holotype, male: “ India: Tripura, North Tripura, 29 m, 23°35’N, 91°52’E, 16.v.2010, leg. P.P. Bhatt / Col/ Scar. 2711/ B.K. Agarwala Tripura University/ 1070 Sericini: Asia spec./ICAR–NBAIR– S18” (NBAIR). The specimen bear a red printed label: “ Maladera tripuraensis sp. nov., HOLOTYPE, Kailash Chandra, Dirk Ahrens, Debika Bhunia, Kolla Sreedevi & Devanshu Gupta, Det. 2020”. Description (holotype, male). Body. Length: 11.8 mm, elytral length: 8.2 mm, width: 6.7 mm. Body wide, oval, black, dorsal surface dull, labroclypeus, tarsomeres, and tibiae shiny, glabrous. Head. Labroclypeus wide, lateral margins strongly convex and convergent, lateral margins produce with ocular canthus an indistinct angle, anterior angles strongly convex, anterior margin shallowly emarginate medially, margins weakly reflexed; surface shiny, at base narrowly dull, strongly convex medially, densely and finely punctate, distance between punctures partly smaller their diameter, with a few single setae anteriorly; frontoclypeal suture finely incised, bluntly angled medially; ocular canthus moderately wide and long (1/3 of ocular diameter), finely and densely punctate, with a short terminal seta. Eyesmoderately large, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.62. Frons with more superficial and moderately dense punctures, with a single seta beside eyes. Antenna with ten antennomeres, club with three antennomeres and straight, 1.2 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined. Mentum convexly elevated and flattened anteriorly. Pronotum strongly convex, widest at base, lateral margins evenly convex and convergent anteriorly, slightly narrowed towards strongly rounded posterior angles, anterior angles sharp and distinctly produced; anterior margin with a fine marginal line, straight; basal margin without marginal line; surface finely and evenly densely punctate, setae of lateral and lateral anterior margin robust but sparse, punctures with microscopic setae only. Scutellum wide, triangular, punctation as in pronotum. Elytra strongly convex, widest shortly behind middle, striae finely impressed, finely punctate, intervals flat, evenly densely and finely punctate, with minute setae in punctures; epipleura ending at strongly rounded external apical angle of elytra, sparsely setose; apex of elytra with a fine membraneous rim of short microtrichomes. Ventral face coarsely and densely punctate, nearly glabrous, only metasternal plate and lateral metacoxa with a few robust setae. Mesosternum between mesocoxae wide, 1.5 times as wide as mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/1.81. Abdominal sternite finely and moderately densely punctate, each with a row of coarse punctures bearing each a robust seta. Pygidium weakly convex, coarsely and densely punctate, apical margins with a few long setae. Legs wide and short; femora superficially and sparsely punctate, with two longitudinal rows of setae. Metafemur shiny, anterior edge acute, without adjacent serrated line, anterior longitudinal row of setae reduced; posterior ventral margin almost straight, weakly widened in apical half, neither ventrally nor dorsally serrated but smooth, glabrous. Metatibia short and wide, widest at middle; flattened, ratio width/length: 1/2.3, dorsal margin sharply carinate, with three groups of spines, basal one at one third, median one shortly behind middle, and apical one at three quarters of metatibial length, basally with a few fine and short setae; lateral face weakly longitudinally convex, with sparse superficial punctures; medial face impunctate, apex shallowly and concavely emarginate interiorly near tarsal articulation. Tarsomeres impunctate dorsally, with dense, fine setae ventrally; metatarsomeres ventrally glabrous, with a strongly serrated carina, subventrally with a second, smooth longitudinal carina, first metatarsomere little shorter than following two tarsomeres combined and as long as dorsal tibial spur. Protibia short, bidentate. Anterior claws symmetrical. Aedeagus. Figs. 13–15. Habitus. Fig. 16. Female unknown. Etymology. This new species is named after its occurrence in Tripura (adjective in the nominative case singular). Distribution. Only known from the type locality (Fig. 21). Differential diagnosis. Maladera tripuraensis new species differs from all M. siniaevi Ahrens, 2004 but the shorter parameres, from M. weigeli Ahrens, 2004 by the reflexed left paramere and the wider (lateral view) lateral process of phallobase (Figs.13–15).Published as part of Chandra, Kailash, Ahrens, Dirk, Bhunia, Debika, Sreedevi, Kolla & Gupta, Devanshu, 2021, New species and records of Sericini from India (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae Melolonthinae), pp. 492-510 in Zootaxa 4951 (3) on pages 497-498, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4951.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/466821
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