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 Oenopia chinensis (Weise) ( Fig. 144 ) Coelophora chinensis Weise, 1912: 113 ( Type locality: China ). Gyrocaria chinensis : Miyatake 1965: 65 . Oenopia chinensis : Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1982: 426 ; Hoang 1983: 91; Poorani & Thangjam 2019: 550 . Diagnosis. Length: 3.50–4.00 mm; width: 3.00– 3.30 mm . Form circular, dorsum convex and glabrous. Head yellow in male and black in female, pronotum black with lateral flanks yellow, elytra black with three yellow spots on each elytron ( Fig. 144a ). Female genitalia ( Fig. 144b ) with a long, tubular and twisted infundibulum, spermatheca ( Fig. 144c ) and male genitalia ( Fig. 144d–g ) as illustrated. Distribution. India ( Arunachal Pradesh , Meghalaya ); China ; Laos ; Vietnam . Notes. It is superficially similar to O. sexareata and Oenopia formosana Miyatake 1967 (treated as a synonym of O. chinensis by Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1982 ). Poorani & Thangjam (2019) recorded it from northeastern India ( Meghalaya ). It appears to be a rare species for India .