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
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1
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Calvia sichuanica
Kovář
(
Fig. 40a
)
Calvia sicardi
Mader, 1930: 163
[junior homonym];
Ren
et al
. 2009: 184
.
Calvia sichuanica
Kovář, 2007: 608
(replacement name); Das
et al
. 2020a: 196.
Diagnosis.
Length:
5.70–6.50 mm
; width:
5.30–5.70 mm
. Form broadly rounded to oval, dorsum convex and glabrous. Ground colour ochreous yellow to reddish brown, pronotum with two pairs of ochreous or reddish-brown maculae, outer pair elongate oval and lateral, inner pair median and situated one on either side above scutellar shield, rest of pronotum creamy whitish to yellow; elytral pattern as illustrated with ochreous / reddish brown spots having creamy yellow borders that are interlinked to form two longitudinal rows of spots (
Fig. 40a
). Genitalia not studied.
Distribution.
India
(
Manipur
;
Nagaland
);
Myanmar
;
China
.
Notes.
Kovář (2007)
coined
C. sichuanica
as a replacement name for
Calvia sicardi
Mader, 1930
because it was preoccupied by
C. sicardi
(
Nunenmacher, 1912
)
, a name originally described as
Agrabia sicardi
.
Agrabia sicardi
Nunenmacher 1912
(described from
California
,
USA
) is a preoccupied name and also a synonym of
Calvia quatuordecimguttata
(L.).
Ren
et al
. (2009)
illustrated the habitus and male genitalia (as
C. sicardi
). Das
et al
. (2020a) recorded it from
Manipur
(northeastern
India
) and
Myanmar
.