Lady Beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) From Chinese Hemlocks Infested With The Hemlock Woolly Adelgid, Adelges Tsugae Annand (Homoptera: Adelgidae)
Author
Yu, Guoyue
Author
Montgomery, Michael E.
Author
Yao, Defu
text
The Coleopterists Bulletin
2000
2000-06-30
54
2
154
199
http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065x(2000)054[0154:lbccfc]2.0.co;2
journal article
10.1649/0010-065X(2000)054[0154:LBCCFC]2.0.CO;2
Shirozuella nibagou
Yu
,
new species
(
Fig. 22
)
Description.
Male. Length width
2.10 mm
; width
1.35 mm
. Form oval, moderately convex dorsum. Elytral pubescence short, simple in arrangement. Head black, antenna black with terminal segment brown, mouthparts dark brown with maxillary palpi black, eyes black. Pronotum black with lateral margin brown. Scutellum black. Elytron black, with large, brown, curved mark situated between 2/5 and 4/5 elytral length to apex, closer to suture than to lateral margin; elytral apex narrowly brown. Underside including legs black. Head with frontal surface of capsule flattened, slightly convex; eyes relatively large, width slightly less than interocular distance. Clypeus subtrapezoidal, distinctly shorter than interocular distance. Antenna 9segmented (
Fig.
22g
). Maxillary palpi (
Fig. 22f
) very long, terminal segment distinctly securiform, apex obliquely truncate. Pronotum relatively small, strongly narrowing anteriorly. Humeral calli distinctly raised. Prosternum slightly convex anteriorly, mesosternum emarginate anteriorly. Postcoxal line of first abdominal sternum complete, reaching 1/2 sternum length. Genitalia: Sipho (
Fig. 22a
) stout and short, without distinct siphonal capsule; apex of sipho (
Fig. 22b
) surrounded by membrane. Tegmen (
Fig. 22c, d
) moderately stout; median piece of tegmen parallel, apical 1/7 converging sharply to teatlike tip in ventral view. Lateral lobes of tegmen longer than median piece, with a few setae, and without appendix.
Female. Same as male except color of pronotum entirely black, terminal segment of maxillary palpus distinctly securiform, slightly divergent apically, apex obliquely trun cate; postcoxal line extends to 3/5 sternum length. Hemisternite (
Fig. 22h
) elongate, with distinct stylus.
Fig. 22.
Shirozuella nibagou
Yu
,
n. sp.
a
) sipho;
b
) apex of sipho, ventral;
c
) tegmen, ventral;
d
) tegmen, lateral;
e
) first abdominal sternite;
f
) maxillary palpus;
g
) antenna;
h
) hemisternite;
i
) outline of the body;
j
) scale for a–f = 0.25 mm;
k
) scale for g, h = 0.1 mm.
Type Series.
Holotype
: (Ƌ),
Sichuan
:
Baoxing
:
Nibagou
(
30.3 N
,
102.8 E
),
VIII1997
,
Guo H.
et al.
leg. (
BAAF
)
.
Paratype
: (
1 ♀
, same data as holotype) (
BAAF
)
.
Etymology.
The specific name refers to the
type
locality.
Remarks.
The previous species,
Shirozuella quadrimacularis
Yu
,
new species
, differs from the known species of the genus in having brown elytra with two pairs of light markings. It differs from
S. nibagou
new species
by the terminal segment of the maxillary palpus being slightly divergent distally, the stout hemisternite of the female, and the short, black body. Both
S. nibagou
and
S. alishanensis
Yu and Pang
have the lateral lobes of the tegmen without an appendix whereas the
type
species of the genus,
S. mirabilis
Sasaji (1967)
, and
S. appendiculata
Yu and Pang (1992b)
have the lateral lobes of the tegmen with a long appendix at the tip. Further study may show that
S. quadrimacularis
,
S. nibagou
,
and
S. alishanensis
belong in a genus separate from the latter two species. The recently described
Ghanius schawalleri
Canepari (1997)
resembles
S. nibagou
in many respects. Because the former has a complete first abdominal sternite postcoxal line, it would not be a member of
Ghanius
Ahmad
, but belongs in
Shirozuella
(Canepari, pers. comm., agrees with this).
Subfamily
Coccinellinae
Tribe
Coccinellini
Genus
Hippodamia
Dejean
Hippodamia variegata
(Goeze)
Coccinella variegata
Goeze 1777 (
France
)
.
Adonia variegata
: Mader 1928
(Palearctic region, North and Central Africa);
Liu 1963
(
China
);
Bielawski 1984
(
Mongolia
);
Kuznetsov 1997
(Russian).
Hippodamia variegata
: IablokoffKhnzorian 1982
;
Gordon 1987
(North America); Gordon and Vandenberg 1991;
Cao
et al.
1992
.
Distribution.
China
(Jiling, Laoning,
Inner Mongolia
,
Ningxia
,
Xinjiang
,
Gansu
,
Hebei
,
Shandong
,
Shanxi
,
Henan
,
Sichuan
,
Shaanxi
,
Fujian
,
Yunnan
,
Tibet
), Palearctic Region, North and Central Africa,
India
,
Nepal
, North America (introduced).
Specimens Examined.
Yunnan
:
Lijiang
:
Wenbishan
(1 Ƌ,
2 ♀
)
.
Genus
Propylea
Mulsant
Propylea quatuordecimpunctata
(Linneaus)
Coccinella
14
punctata
Linneaus 1758 (Europe).
Propylea quatuordecim
punctata
:
Mulsant 1846
;
Sasaji 1971
(
Japan
); Iablo
koffKhnzorian 1982; Gordon and Vandenberg 1991 (North America)
Propylaea quatuordecimpunctata
:
Mader 1933
;
Liu 1963
(
China
);
Bielawski
1984 (
Mongolia
).
Distribution.
China
(Northeast and Northwest
China
,
Beijing
,
Jiangsu
,
Guizhou
,
Yunnan
), Palearctic region, North America (introduced).
Specimen Examined.
Sichuan
:
Baoxing
(
1 ♀
)
.
Genus
Adalia
Mulsant
Adalia
bipunctata
(Linnaeus)
Coccinella bipunctata
Linnaeus 1758
(Europe)
.
Adalia
bipunctata
: Mader 1929
(Europe, Asia, America);
Liu 1963
(
China
);
Belicek 1976
(
Canada
, America);
Bielawski 1984
(
Mongolia
);
Gordon 1985
(North America);
Pope 1988
(
Australia
).
Adalia
(
Adalia
)
bipunctata
: IablokoffKhnzorian 1982
.
Adalia
fasciatopunctata
: Mader 1929 (
Asia Minor
, Caucasus);
Bielawski 1984
(
Mongolia
).
Distribution.
China
(
Heilongjiang
, Laoning, Jiling,
Hebei
,
Shanxi
,
Shandong
,
Henan
,
Xinjiang
,
Ningxia
,
Gansu
,
Shaanxi
,
Jiangsu
,
Zhejiang
,
Jiangxi
,
Fujian
,
Sichuan
,
Yunnan
,
Tibet
), Holarctic Region, North and Central Africa,
Australia
and
New Zealand
(introduced).
Specimens Examined.
(11 total),
Yunnan
: Lijiang: Wenbishan.
Remarks.
The specimens examined here are the form
fasciatopunctata.
Specimens were collected in late September, some under hemlock bark where they appeared to be hibernating.