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Diagnostic characters of
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species:
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,274,374,400]" pageId="3" pageNumber="304">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
Form broadly rounded or oblong to broad oval, dorsum convex and densely pubescent, often with a mixture of light and dark hairs, occasionally distinctly setose with dark brown to black, suberect to erect discal and marginal setae. Head (
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) short and strongly transverse, compound eyes with short, erect hairs; clypeal margin laterally expanded over eyes. Antenna (
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) short, with 9-11 antennomeres, insertions hidden under the expanded clypeal margin.
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(
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) usually cordate with a moderately deep median emargination, labial palpi three-segmented, second broadly triangular, terminal palpomere elongate cylindrical, apically narrowed. Maxilla (
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) with terminal maxillary palpomere securiform, apically divergent, obliquely truncate; cardo well developed, often laterally greatly expanded. Prosternal process T-shaped, with a pair of carinae. Legs with femora broad and flattened, retracted into foveae on underside at rest (
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); middle and hind tibiae also often broad and externally angulate (
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). Tarsal formula 4-4-4 (
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). Abdomen (
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) having six visible ventrites, abdominal postcoxal line variable, apically merged with the posterior margin of ventrite 1 (
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) or recurved and incomplete (
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), or incomplete with an oblique associate lateral line (
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Fig.
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). Elytral epipleura narrow, deeply foveolate on level with mid and hind legs to receive femoral apices. Coxites elongate or transverse with a long handle (
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). Spermatheca often with small flap-like appendages (
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) or regular.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="3.[151,1437,374,1301]" pageId="3" pageNumber="304">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,353,878,904]" pageId="3" pageNumber="304">­ Distribution.</emphasis>
In South Asia,
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<emphasis box="[520,651,878,904]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="304">Platynaspis</emphasis>
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is distributed mainly in the northern and north-eastern regions of
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,
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,
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,
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and
<collectingCountry box="[515,610,914,940]" name="Pakistan" pageId="3" pageNumber="304">Pakistan</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation author="Poorani, J." box="[626,789,914,940]" pageId="3" pageNumber="304" pagination="307 - 383" refId="ref11782" refString="Poorani, J. (2002) An annotated checklist of the Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) (excluding Epilachninae) of the Indian subregion. Oriental Insects, 36, 307 - 383. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00305316.2002.10417335" type="journal article" year="2002">Poorani, 2002</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Kovar, I." box="[801,947,914,940]" pageId="3" pageNumber="304" pagination="568 - 631" refId="ref11211" refString="Kovar, I. (2007) New nomenclatorial and taxonomic acts and comments. Coccinellidae. In: Lobl, I. &amp; Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 4. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, pp. 71 - 73 + 568 - 631." type="book chapter" year="2007">Kovář, 2007</bibRefCitation>
). In
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, about a dozen species have been recorded mainly from the north-western and north-eastern regions, and only one species,
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<emphasis box="[1163,1327,950,976]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="304">P. flavoguttata</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation author="Gorham, H. S." pageId="3" pageNumber="304" pagination="200 - 208" refId="ref10630" refString="Gorham, H. S. (1894) On the Coccinellidae from India in the collection of Mr. H. E. Andrewes of the Indian Forestry Service. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, 38, 200 - 208." type="journal article" year="1894">Gorham 1894</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
, is known from southern
<collectingCountry box="[504,565,986,1012]" name="India" pageId="3" pageNumber="304">India</collectingCountry>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="3.[151,1437,374,1301]" pageId="3" pageNumber="304">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,414,1022,1048]" pageId="3" pageNumber="304">Immature­stages.­</emphasis>
The larvae of
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are broadly ovate and dorsoventrally flattened and very similar in external appearance to the members of
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, a tribe with almost entirely aphidophagous habits. Pupation in small groups is often seen in Indian
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<emphasis box="[619,750,1094,1120]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="304">Platynaspis</emphasis>
spp.
</taxonomicName>
, which is also common in
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(unpublished observation). The morphology of the larvae and pupae in
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is probably an adaptation for myrmecophilous or myrmecophagous habits, well documented in species like
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<emphasis box="[845,1093,1166,1192]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="304">Platynaspis luteoruba</emphasis>
(Goeze)
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis box="[1249,1351,1166,1192]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="304">P. lewisii</emphasis>
Crotch
</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation author="Ceryngier, P. &amp; Roy, H. E. &amp; Poland, R. L." box="[159,402,1202,1228]" pageId="3" pageNumber="304" pagination="375 - 443" refId="ref9888" refString="Ceryngier, P., Roy, H. E. &amp; Poland, R. L. (2012) Natural enemies of ladybird beetles. In: Hodek, I., van Emden, H. F. &amp; Honek, A. (Eds.), Ecology and Behaviour of the Ladybird Beetles (Coccinellidae). Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, pp. 375 - 443. https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / 9781118223208. ch 8" type="book chapter" year="2012">
Ceryngier
<emphasis box="[279,336,1202,1228]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="304">et al.</emphasis>
2012
</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Kaneko, S." box="[413,568,1202,1228]" pageId="3" pageNumber="304" pagination="181 - 187" refId="ref10948" refString="Kaneko, S. (2007) Larvae of two ladybirds, Phymatosternus lewisii and Scymnus posticalis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), exploiting colonies of the brown aphid Toxoptera citricidus (Homoptera: Aphidiidae) attended by the ant Pristomyrmex pungens (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Applied Entomology and Zoology, 42, 181 - 187. https: // doi. org / 10.1303 / aez. 2007.181" type="journal article" year="2007">Kaneko 2007</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="3.[151,1437,374,1301]" pageId="3" pageNumber="304">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,381,1238,1264]" pageId="3" pageNumber="304">­ Biology­/­hosts.</emphasis>
Indian species for which host data is available appear to be principally aphidophagous (label data; personal observations) except
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<emphasis box="[552,715,1274,1300]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="304">P. flavoguttata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
which is associated with ants (
<bibRefCitation author="Gorham, H. S." box="[1062,1228,1274,1300]" pageId="3" pageNumber="304" pagination="200 - 208" refId="ref10630" refString="Gorham, H. S. (1894) On the Coccinellidae from India in the collection of Mr. H. E. Andrewes of the Indian Forestry Service. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, 38, 200 - 208." type="journal article" year="1894">Gorham, 1894</bibRefCitation>
; label data).
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