An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini
Author
POORANI, J.
text
Zootaxa
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2023-08-18
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Coelophora bowringii
Crotch
(
Fig. 67
)
Coelophora bowringii
Crotch, 1874: 152
(BMNH;
Type
locality:
Burma
);
Poorani 2002a: 328
;
Yu 2010: 69
.
Coelophora tanoi
Sasaji, 1982
;
Ren
et al
. 2009: 194–195
.—Synonymized by
Yu 2010: 69
.
Diagnosis.
Length:
4.10–4.50 mm
; width:
3.60–3.90 mm
. Form broadly rounded, dorsum hemispherical, convex, glabrous. Ground colour yellowish orange to ochreous in dead specimens, in live and well-preserved specimens head and anterolateral portions of pronotum creamy yellow. Each elytron with four spots arranged in a 3-1 pattern (
Fig. 67a, b
), first three spots arranged in a transverse row in anterior half a little before midline, fourth spot oblique oval, positioned before apex; elytral spots usually with yellowish-white halos. Genitalia not studied.
Distribution.
India
: Northeastern region (
Assam
,
Nagaland
);
Myanmar
;
China
.
Prey / associated habitat.
Not known.
Notes.
Iablokoff-Khnzorian (1982)
erroneously synonymized it with
C. newporti
.
Yu (2010)
illustrated the habitus and colour morphs.