The Tribe Coccinellini Weise (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) in Sindh, Pakistan
Author
Ali, Muhammad
Author
Raza, Ghulam
Author
Ali, Shaukat
Author
Anjum, Syed Istiaq
Author
Hussain, Ishtiaq
text
The Coleopterists Bulletin
2018
2018-09-20
72
3
629
638
http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065x-72.3.629
journal article
10.1649/0010-065X-72.3.629
1938-4394
4836836
Coccinella undecimpunctata
Linnaeus, 1758
(
Fig. 2A–E
)
Material Examined. [
SINDH
]
, 16,
6♀
, Tandojam,
24.
VI
.1971
, leg. M.I. Khan; 56,
7♀
,
Larkana
30.
VI
.1971
, leg.
M.I. Khan
; 56,
7♀
,
Mirpur Khas
,
20.
VI
.1971
, leg.
M. Khan
;
9♀
,
Thatta
,
30.IV.1971
, leg.
M.I. Khan
; 56,
10♀
,
Hyderabad
,
10. III. 2010
, leg.
M. Ali
(
NHMUK
)
.
Diagnosis.
Body black, head black with a small, rounded, whitish spot near each eye; pronotum black with an elongated, whitish spot on each anterior angle; elytra with 11 spots (
Fig. 2A
), each elytron with a common large, pentagonal scutellar spot plus one small, oval humeral spot, two slightly tetragonal sublateral spots, and two subsutural spots, anterior subsutural spot larger, oval, while posterior one small, elongate-oval. Length 4.5–5.5 mm; width 2.7–4.1 mm; body elongate oval. Eyes large with minute facets; anterior margin of ligula slightly pointed; submentum comparatively larger with narrow anterior margin. Prosternal process with much elevated, short, narrow carinae; scuto-scutellar suture semicircular, broad; epipleuron with inner margin medially concave, slightly broader anteriorly, narrowing posteriorly. Postcoxal line deeply curving, meeting posterior margin of first sternite medially; depression on terminal sternite in male surrounded by setae.
Fig. 2.
Coccinella undecimpunctata
. A) Habitus, B) Tegmen, C) Sipho, D) Genital plates, E) Spermatheca. Scale bars = 0.3 mm.
Fig. 3.
Coccinella transversalis
A) Habitus, B) Tegmen, C) Sipho, D) Genital plates, E) Spermatheca. Scale bars = 0.3 mm.
Genitalia.
Penis slightly curved, distally bifid; penal capsule flattened; median lobe shorter than parameres, thickened, tapering apically; parameres narrow,short; trabes short, straight, with margins folded (
Fig. 2A–B
). Genital plates somewhat quadrangular; lateral plates slightly curved mesad; spermathecal capsule broadly curved, cornu deeply sharped while ramus longer, nodulus very small (
Fig. 2C–D
).
Distribution in
Sindh Province
.
Tandojam, Hyderabad, Sukkar, Mirpur Khas, and Thatta.