Review of the lady beetle genus Phaenochilus Weise (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Chilocorini) with description of a new species from Thailand that preys on cycad aulacaspis scale, Aulacaspis yasumatsui Takagi (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Author Giorgi, José Adriano Laboratório de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Pará Altamira, Pará 68372 - 040, Brazil. Author Vandenberg, Natalia J. Systematic Entomology Lab (SEL), Plant Sciences Institute, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, c / o National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, P. O. Box 37012, MRC- 168, Washington, DC 20013 - 7012, USA. text Zootaxa 2012 2012-09-11 3478 239 255 journal article 1175-5326 F40F4216-16B3-4213-80C0-898E21B69C2D 1. Phaenochilus flaviceps Miyatake 1970 Phaenochilus flaviceps Miyatake 1970b: 111 (original description; morphological details and male genitalia figured). Type material: Holotype , male ( BPBM ); paratype , female ( BPBM ). Type locality: “ Coimbatore , Madras State , South India .” Remarks: This is one of three known Phaenochilus species with black to piceous elytra, and the only one of that coloration known to occur in India . It differs from P. ruficollis in having the median part of the pronotum black instead of red, and from P. mikado in having the basal lobe of the male genitalia ( Fig. 9 ) with a sharply pointed median apical projection, and the parameres spoonshaped. It resembles Chilocorus nigritus (Fabricius) , but differs in possessing the slender terminal article of the maxillary and labial palpi, narrow frons, and elongate basal tooth of the tarsal claw.