The Tribe Coccinellini Weise (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) in Sindh, Pakistan
Author
Ali, Muhammad
Author
Raza, Ghulam
Author
Ali, Shaukat
Author
Anjum, Syed Istiaq
Author
Hussain, Ishtiaq
text
The Coleopterists Bulletin
2018
2018-09-20
72
3
629
638
http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065x-72.3.629
journal article
10.1649/0010-065X-72.3.629
1938-4394
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Propylea quatuordecimpunctata
(Linnaeus, 1758)
(
Fig. 8A–C
)
Material Examined. [
SINDH
]
, 16,
2♀
, Karachi,
14.6.1972
, leg. Ahmed (
NHMUK
).
Diagnosis.
Head in male yellow except vertex black, female head with black spot on clypeus; pronotum with large, irregular, black area medially; elytra yellow with 14 black spots (
Fig. 8A
); femur brownish black; abdominal segments brownish black. Length 4.5–5.2 mm; width 3.3–3.8 mm; body shape rounded-oval. Labrum with convex anterior margin; eye large, finely faceted; submentum bifurcated. Prosternal process with carinae broader anteriorly, not reaching anterior margin; scutoscutellar suture straight; epipleuron with inner margin bifurcated medially, narrow anteriorly as well as posteriorly. Postcoxal line parallel to anterior margin of second sternite; last sternite covered with small setae.
Genitalia.
Penis distinctly elongated, narrow, terminally with a large membranous moon-shaped hook, penal capsule strongly hammer-shaped; parameres bent medially, slightly longer than median lobe; trabes compressed, narrow proximally and expanded apically (
Fig. 8B–C
).
Distribution in
Sindh Province
.
Karachi.