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 Coelophora inaequalis (Fabricius) ( Fig. 70 ) Coccinella inaequalis Fabricius, 1775: 80 ( Lectotype female, BMNH; Type locality: ‘Nova Hollandia’). Coelophora inaequalis : Mulsant, 1850: 404 ; Crotch 1874: 153; Korschefsky 1932: 292 ; Pope, 1989: 665 ; Poorani 2002a: 328 ; Ślipiński et al . 2020: 36–37 . Coelophora vidua Mulsant, 1850: 393 .—Synonymized by Poorani et al . 2008: 592 . FIGURE 70. Coelophora inaequalis (Fabricius) : a. adult (India); b. adult (Malaysia); c. abdomen; d, e. spermatheca; f, g. male genitalia: f. tegmen, ventral view; g. penis. Diagnosis. Length: 4.30–6.00 mm; width: 3.50–5.50 mm . Form broad, almost circular, convex and glabrous. Dorsal colour pattern highly variable, the form illustrated here ( Fig. 70a ) superficially resembles C. bissellata with a pair of black spots on pronotum and nine black spots on elytra. Abdominal postcoxal line incomplete ( Fig. 70c ). Male genitalia ( Fig. 70f, g ) and spermatheca ( Fig. 70d, e ) diagnostic. Distribution. India (Andamans); Sri Lanka ; Southeast Asia ( Thailand , Malaysia , Indonesia , Philippines ); New Guinea ; New Caledonia ; Micronesia ; Australia ; Introduced in New Zealand , Hawaii and Florida ( Gordon 1985 ; Pope 1989 ). Notes. Pope (1989) and Ślipiński et al. (2020) described and illustrated this species in detail. It is not known from the Indian mainland and the specimens studied were collected from the Andaman Islands.