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 4836836 Hippodamia variegata (Goeze, 1777) ( Fig. 5A–D ) Material Examined. [ SINDH ] , 66, 3♀ , Hyderabad, 13. V .1967 , leg. Ahmed; 36, 1♀ , Thatta , 7. V .1970 , leg. Khan ; 56, 4♀ , Karachi , 5. VI .1971 , leg. Khan ; 46, 1♀ , Karachi , 15.VII.2009 , leg. M. Ali ( NHMUK ) ]. Diagnosis. Body creamy red, head brown-black posteriorly, frontoclypeus whitish with two black spots near anterior margin, mouthparts yellowish, pronotum black with white anterolateral margins, anterior projections white; elytra red or orange, each elytron with six spots plus one spot at anterior junction; venter and femur black, tibia and tarsi brownish yellow. Length 4.0–4.5 mm; width 2.8–2.9 mm; body slightly elongate-oval. Eyes small with minute facets; anterior margin of ligula slightly notched; submentum elongated, narrow anteriorly. Prosternal process narrow with less prominent carinae; scuto-scutellar suture slightly curved and slightly expanded medially. Postcoxal line broadly curved, reaching to anterior margin of first sternite; last sternite with depression covered with small setae anteriorly and long setae laterally. Fig. 4. Cheilomenes sexmaculata . A) Tegmen, lateral view, B) Tegmen, ventral view, C) Sipho, D) Genital plates, E) Spermatheca. Scale bars = 0.3 mm. Genitalia. Penis flattened with terminal furcations equal, from between these furcations a long process arises, making a hook terminally; penal capsule black, beak-like; median lobe broad proximally, deeply sharped apically, longer than parameres; parameres inverted; trabes flat, bifurcated apically ( Fig. 5A–C ). Genital plates broad, elongated, outer margin deeply s-shaped; lateral plates sharply narrow, elongated, deeply curved mesad; spermatheca with thick, broad cornu; ramus and nodulus reduced or absent ( Fig. 5D ). Fig. 6. Oenopia mimica . A) Tegmen, B) Sipho, C) Genital plates, D) Spermatheca. Scale bars = 0.2 mm. Fig. 5. Hippodamia variegata . A) Tegmen, B) Sipho, C) Genital plates, D) Spermatheca. Scale bars = 0.3 mm. Distribution in Sindh Province . Hyderabad, Thatta, and Karachi.