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 manipurensis Devi, 1989 * Oenopia manipurensis : Shantibala & Singh 1991 . Distribution: India : Manipur . *Described in a PhD dissertation and not formally published. FIGURE 200. Oomyzus scaposus (Thomson) , an egg parasitoid of Coccinellini : a. adult female, dorsal view; b, c. adult female, lateral view; d. adult male, dorsal view; e. adult male, lateral view. FIGURE 201. a. Pupa of Homalotylus sp. ; b. Cheilomenes sexmaculata larvae parasitized by Homalotylus sp. ; c. Homalotylus hemipterinus (De Stefani) , adult female, dorsal view; d. Homalotylus hemipterinus (De Stefani) , adult female, lateral view. FIGURE 202. Nothoserphus spp. : a. Parasitoid larva emerging out for pupation; b–e. coccinellid larva with pupa of Nothoserphus ; f, g. adult of Nothoserphus sp. (a, c–e. on Cheilomenes sexmaculata ; b. on Illeis cincta ). FIGURE 203. a. larva of Dinocampus coccinellae (Schrank) from adult of Cheilomenes sexmaculata ; b. Cheilomenes sexmaculata carrying the cocoon of D. coccinellae ; c. Dinocampus coccinellae , adult female. Further notes ● Oenopia cashmirense ( Korschefsky, 1935 ) , originally described as Synharmonia cashmirense Korschefsky (1935:299) is included by Kovář(2007:621) as a distinct species in his catalogue of Palaearctic Coccinellidae . It is listed as a subspecies, Oenopia conglobata kashmirensis Korschefsky, 1935 in Wikispecies (URL: https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/ Oenopia _conglobata_kashmirensis) and the original paper / description could not be verified. ● Coelophora octosignata Mulsant, 1850 (listed by Poorani 2002a ) is removed as it is treated as a synonym of Phrynocaria unicolor by Kovář (2007: 623) . FIGURE 204. Phalacrotophora sp. on Cheilomenes sexmaculata : a. larva; b, c. puparia; d. adult, lateral view. ● Bulaea nevilli (Dohrn, 1882) , included in Poorani’s checklist (2002) is removed from this list because of its uncertain status. The original description of this species suggests Illeis , not Bulaea , and Kovář (2007: 72) also proposed ‘ Illeis nevili’ (sic) as a changed combination for this name. Mader’s (1937) illustration of B. nevilli also indicates an Illeis sp. with black scutellar shield. The type specimen in Warsaw Museum was lost during the second world war and hence its status could not be confirmed (H. F̧rsch, in litt .). ● Coccinella nepalensis Iablokoff-Khnzorian, 1982 is removed following Kovář’s (2007: 72) observation that ‘it was extralimital and its description was based on material of Lioadalia flavomaculata (De Geer, 1778) , stated to be from Nepal but probably from Natal’. ● Coccinella krikkeni Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1982 was removed from the Indian checklist by Poorani (2004) following Vandenberg’s (2002b) observation that it was a synonym of Cycloneda munda (Say) , a species restricted to North America, and the labeling of the type material from ‘South India’ was a case of “accidental transport through commerce, or more likely, accident of mislabeling”.