An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini
Author
POORANI, J.
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Genus
Anegleis
Iablokoff-Khnzorian
Anegleis
Iablokoff-Khnzorian, 1982: 295
.
Type
species:
Verania cardoni
Weise, 1892
, by original designation.
Diagnosis.
Form circular, dorsum strongly convex, shiny and glabrous. Anterior clypeal margin straight between lateral projections. Head (
Figs 23a
,
24b
) with widely separated eyes, interocular distance more than twice eye width. Antenna (
Fig. 24d
) slightly shorter than width of head, 11-segmented with a three-segmented club. Terminal maxillary palpomere securiform (
Fig. 24c
). Labium with terminal labial palpomere tubular and much less broader than penultimate palpomere (
Fig. 24e
). Scutellar shield small. Prothoracic hypomeron not foveate. Prosternal carinae absent. Mesoventrite anteriorly distinctly but shallowly emarginate. Epipleuron with inner carina not reaching apex (
Fig.
24g
). Tibial spurs absent. Abdominal postcoxal line (
Figs 23b
,
24f
) incomplete, not recurved, running parallel to posterior margin of ventrite 1. Female genitalia with a vermiform spermatheca not differentiated into nodulus, ramus and cornu (
Fig. 23e, f
), coxite (
Fig. 24h
) as illustrated; infundibulum present.
Distribution.
Oriental region
(South and Southeast Asia).
Affinities.
It is closely related to
Micraspis
and
Tomaszewska
et al
. (2021)
included
Anegleis
,
Micraspis
and
Protothea
in the
Coccinella-
group of genera in their phylogenetic analysis.
Included species.
Monotypic genus, known by its
type
species,
A. cardoni
(Weise)
, a very pretty lady beetle widely distributed in the Indian region.