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.