Denierella promerotricha (Dvořák, 1996), comb. nov. (Fig. 2) Epicauta promerotricha Dvořák, 1996: 37. Type material examined. Holotype ♂ (NMPC), labelled: “ India sept.,19–21.7. / Uttar Prades sept. / Karna Prayag env. / M.Valenta lgt., 1994 [typed] // HOLOTYPUS [red label glued under locality label, printed] // Epicauta sp. n. / promerotricha [typed] / det. M. Dvořák [printed], 95 [typed] // ex coll. M. Dvořák / National museum / Prague, Czech Republic [printed]”. Paratypes. 13 specimens, same label data as holotype, but “ PARATYPUS [red label, printed]”; 1♂, labelled: “ INDIA bor. 770 m. / UTTAR PRADES bor. / KARNAPRAYAG env. / 19.– 21.7.1994 / lgt. M. Valenta [printed] // PARATYPUS [red label glued under locality label, printed] // Epicauta [printed] sp.n. [blue handwriting] / promerotricha / det. M. Dvořák, 95 [printed]”; 6 specimens, labelled “ India sept., 3.8.1994 / Uttar Prades sept. / Nejibabad env. / M. Valenta legit [typed] // PARATYPUS [red label, printed] // Epicauta sp. n. / promerotricha / det. M. Dvořák, 95 [printed] // ex coll. M. Dvořák / National museum / Prague, Czech Republic [printed]”; 1♂, labelled: “ India c., 8/1986 / Panna Nat.Park / Werner legit. [typed] // PARATYPUS [red label, printed] // Epicauta sp. n. / promerotricha [typed] / det. M. Dvořák [printed], 95 [typed] // ex coll. M. Dvořák / National museum / Prague, Czech Republic [printed]”; 1 specimen, labelled: “Darjeeling [yellow label with black border, handwritten] // PARATYPUS [red label, printed] // Epicauta sp. n. / promerotricha / det. M. Dvořák, 95 [printed]”; 1♂, labelled: “ India sept.or. / Darjeeling / Nat.Mus.Praha [typed] // PARATYPUS [red label, printed] // Epicauta sp. n. / promerotricha / det. M. Dvořák, 95 [printed] // ex coll. M. Dvořák / National museum / Prague, Czech Republic [printed]” (all NMPC). Additional material examined. NEPAL: 1♂, Chitwan Roy. Nat. Park, Sauraha vill., 27.35N, 84.30E, 166 m, 21.–27.vii.2000, J. Schneider leg. (NMPC). Remark to classification. Dvořák (1996) did not mention pretarsal claws in the original description of E. promerotricha. However, the claws are distinctly serrate, which place the species in the genus Denierella. Distribution. India (Darjeeling, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh) (Dvořák 1996). First record from Nepal.

Published as part of Batelka, Jan & Hájek, Jiří, 2015, New synonyms, combinations and faunistic records in the genus Denierella Kaszab (Coleoptera: Meloidae), pp. 123-130 in Zootaxa 4000 (1) on page 127, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4000.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/239476