An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini Author POORANI, J. text Zootaxa 2023 2023-08-18 5332 1 1 307 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1 journal article 264199 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1 66e0ec51-d494-43d4-965e-a2cd1462ef54 1175-5326 8261502 424F7439-4095-46A5-93E3-C4130E3B6D9A Coccinella magnopunctata Rybakow ( Fig. 52 ) Coccinella undecimpunctata var. magnopunctata Rybakow, 1889: 290 ( Type locality: Central Asia : “ Dy-Tschu ”); Weise 1889: 573. Coccinella semenowi Weise, 1889: 651 ; Jacobson 1915: 982. Coccinella magnopunctata : Dobzhansky 1926: 22 ; Korschefsky 1932: 469 ; Kapur 1963: 33; Poorani 2002a: 326 ; Kovář 2005: 143; Ren et al . 2009: 188 . Coccinella magnoguttata Mader, 1930 in Mader 1926 – 1937: 152 (misspelling). Coccinella (s. str.) magnopunctata : Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1979: 67 ; 1982: 363 . Diagnosis. Length: 5.50–7.00 mm. Body oval, dorsum moderately convex and glabrous ( Fig. 52 ). Head black, eye canthus and two large trapezoidal frontal spots yellow-white, isolated, rarely touching orbits or narrowly interconnected by canthus. Pronotum black, anterolateral corners with small narrowly triangular, more or less broken ochraceous-white spots, both narrowly interconnected at anterior margin. Scutellar shield black. Elytra orange-red with 11 black spots, one scutellar, the rest arranged in a 1-1-1-2 pattern as illustrated, scutellar spot large, somewhat inverted heart-shaped. Underside black, propleura with small crescent-shaped, pale ochraceous spot at anterior corners, elytral epipleura red-orange, mesepimeron white-yellow, metepimeron partly brown. Legs black, anterior face of fore coxae with large pale ochraceous spot in male (Modified from Kovář 2005 ). FIGURE 52. Coccinella magnopunctata Rybakow-habitus. Distribution. Northwestern India (Kashmir); Nepal ; China ; Tibet ; Mongolia ; Russia ; Iran ( Kovář 2005 ). Notes : For detailed redescription and genitalia illustrations, see Kovář (2005) . Also illustrated by Ren et al. (2009).