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.
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Zootaxa
2012
2012-09-11
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journal article
1175-5326
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8.
Phaenochilus renipunctus
Chapin 1965
Phaenochilus renipunctus
Chapin 1965b: 151
(original description, dorsal habitus figured).
Type material:
Holotype
, female (
MCZC
) (digital images examined,
MCZC
Type Database @ Harvard Entomology 2010). Type locality: “Morotai I.,
Indonesia
.”
Remarks:
This is the only species of
Phaenochilus
with a dark reniform macula on the humeral callus of each elytron (
Fig. 1
). The male genitalia are unknown.
MAP 1.
Distributions of
Phaenochilus
species.