An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini
Author
POORANI, J.
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Bulaea lichatschovii
(Hummel)
(
Figs 26
,
27
)
Coccinella lichatschovii
Hummel, 1827: 43
(
Type
locality: ‘Eurasia mer.’).
Bulaea flavidula
Mulsant, 1850: 73
(
lectotype
; UCCC).—
Gordon 1987: 12
(
lectotype
designation). Synonymized by Crotch 1874: 105.
Bulaea lichatschovii
: Crotch, 1874: 105
;
Kapur & Bhaumik 1966: 446
;
Poorani 2002a: 319
;
Ren
et al
. 2009: 178
;
Yu 2010: 139
;
Kovář 2007: 600
.
FIGURE 27.
Bulaea lichatschovii
: a. head; b. abdominal postcoxal line; c. apical ventrites, female; d. prosternal process; e. leg; f. tarsal claw; g. female genitalia; h. spermatheca, enlarged.
Diagnosis.
Length:
4.50–5.50 mm
; width:
3.50–4.20 mm
. Form elongate oval, dorsum moderately convex and glabrous. Head (
Fig. 27a
) yellow with a pair of black spots or a larger black basal macula. Pronotum yellow with 6–7 black spots. Each elytron with nine black spots (
Fig. 26a
), spots of variable size, often lighter in colour or large and confluent with one another. Spermatheca (
Fig.
27g
, h
) as illustrated.
Distribution.
India
(
Haryana
,
Rajasthan
,
Uttar Pradesh
); Central and West Asia;
Afghanistan
; Mediterranean region; North and Central Africa.
Prey / associated habitat.
Collected on beetroot (label data). F̧rsch (1967) reported that it feeds on the pollen of
Chenopodiaceae
.
Ozbek & Cetin (1991)
reported sugar beet, lentil and alfalfa as its host plants. Ali
et al
. (2014) recorded it as feeding on different species of aphids on wheat and mustard pollen in the deserts of
Sindh Province
of
Pakistan
, but rarely from agricultural fields. The label data of specimens of
B. lichatschovii
examined from Rajasthan also show
Chenopodium
sp.
as the host plant.
Iqbal
et al
. (2017)
illustrated the colour morphs of this species in
Pakistan
and recorded three host plants (
Krascheninnikovia ceratoides
(
Caryophyllales
:
Amaranthaceae
),
Artemisia vulgaris
and
A. maritima
(
Asterales
:
Asteraceae
)).
Seasonal occurrence.
Collected in April (
Kapur & Bhaumik 1966
); June–August (
Iqbal
et al
. 2017
).
Notes.
Kapur & Bhaumik (1966)
recorded it from Rajasthan and provided notes on its distribution.
Ren
et al
. (2009)
and
Yu (2010)
illustrated the habitus and the genitalia from
China
.
Iqbal
et al
. (2017)
recorded it from
Pakistan
.