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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2.
Phaenochilus indicus
Miyatake 1970
Phaenochilus indicus
Miyatake 1970b: 113
(original description; morphological details and male genitalia figured).
Type material:
Holotype
, male (
EUCJ
). Type locality: “
Chinchona
,
Anamalai Hills
,
1,050 m
(
3,500 ft.
),
Madras State
,
South
India
.”
Remarks:
Three other congeners possess immaculate yellow to reddish orange or ferrugineus elytra, but this is the only species of that appearance known to occur in
India
. It also differs from the similarly colored species in possessing a more compact antennal club with the last antennomere not much longer than wide (
Fig. 19
). The male genitalia (
Fig. 10
) and morphological details illustrated by
Miyatake (1970b)
suggest a close relationship to the melanic
P. flaviceps
(
Fig. 9
), also described from Madras State.