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) elongate oval, posteriorly distinctly narrowed and apically pointed, dorsum weakly convex to somewhat flattened, glabrous. Head dull yellow to pale testaceous, with a pair of black spots, sometimes fused to form a basal black band. Scutellar shield yellow to black. Pronotum with a pair of elongate, oblique spots or a pair of broad, posteriorly connected black stripes on either side of median line or plain; elytra dull yellow or with black spots, usually arranged in a 1-3-3-1 pattern, highly variable in their number, size and arrangement (
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), about 20 different
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of elytral patterns recorded. Male genitalia (
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) and spermatheca (
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) as illustrated.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C374A3FF14D046BFBD8F32DDFC96FB20" box="[199,859,1185,1212]" pageId="136" pageNumber="137" type="description">
<paragraph id="8BD1F07414D046BFBD8F32DDFC96FB20" blockId="136.[151,1437,933,2039]" box="[199,859,1185,1212]" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">
<emphasis id="B91A2C6614D046BFBD8F32DDFE5BFB20" bold="true" box="[199,406,1185,1211]" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">Immature stages.</emphasis>
Immature stages (
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) as illustrated.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C374A3FF14D046BFBD8F32B9FECCFAD0" pageId="136" pageNumber="137" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="8BD1F07414D046BFBD8F32B9FECCFAD0" blockId="136.[151,1437,933,2039]" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">
<emphasis id="B91A2C6614D046BFBD8F32B9FEACFB44" bold="true" box="[199,353,1221,1247]" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">Distribution.</emphasis>
<collectingCountry id="F379B0E414D046BFBC2632B9FE61FB44" box="[366,428,1221,1247]" name="India" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">India</collectingCountry>
: Northwestern region (
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, Jammu &amp; Kashmir,
<collectingRegion id="49AA3E9614D046BFB9D332B9FAE6FB44" box="[1179,1323,1221,1247]" country="India" name="Uttarakhand" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">Uttarakhand</collectingRegion>
);
<collectingCountry id="F379B0E414D046BFB80C32B9FA55FB44" box="[1348,1432,1221,1247]" name="Bhutan" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">Bhutan</collectingCountry>
;
<collectingCountry id="F379B0E414D046BFBDDF3295FF10FA98" box="[151,221,1257,1283]" name="Nepal" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">Nepal</collectingCountry>
;
<collectingCountry id="F379B0E414D046BFBDA43295FE82FA98" box="[236,335,1257,1283]" name="Pakistan" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">Pakistan</collectingCountry>
; Northwestern Himalayas. Widely distributed in fir forests in the Himalayas between 2100 and
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. Introduced in the
<collectingCountry id="F379B0E414D046BFBCF73371FE38FABC" box="[447,501,1293,1319]" name="United States of America" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">USA</collectingCountry>
(
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) for balsam woolly aphid (
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<emphasis id="B91A2C6614D046BFBE973371FB4AFABC" box="[991,1159,1293,1319]" italics="true" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">Adelges piceae</emphasis>
(Ratzeburg))
</taxonomicName>
but did not establish.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C374A3FF14D046BFBD8F3329FEE6F884" pageId="136" pageNumber="137" type="biology_ecology">
<paragraph id="8BD1F07414D046BFBD8F3329FD82F9B8" blockId="136.[151,1437,933,2039]" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">
<emphasis id="B91A2C6614D046BFBD8F3329FE28FAF4" bold="true" box="[199,485,1365,1391]" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">Prey/associated habitat.</emphasis>
The earliest mention of this species was by
<bibRefCitation id="EFFF8D8514D046BFBEAA3329FB55FAF4" author="Stebbing, E. P." box="[994,1176,1365,1391]" pageId="136" pageNumber="137" pagination="47 - 62" refId="ref122979" refString="Stebbing, E. P. (1903) Coleoptera 2. Notes upon the known predaceous Coccinellidae of the Indian region, Part I. Indian Museum Notes, VI (1), 47 - 62." type="journal article" year="1903">Stebbing (1903)</bibRefCitation>
who recorded it under the name “
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<emphasis id="B91A2C6614D046BFBC5A3305FDEDFA08" box="[274,544,1401,1427]" italics="true" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">Hippodamia constellata</emphasis>
Crotch
</taxonomicName>
” as a predator of
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<emphasis id="B91A2C6614D046BFBE763305FC5AFA08" box="[830,919,1401,1427]" italics="true" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">Adelges</emphasis>
(
<emphasis id="B91A2C6614D046BFBEE03305FBD8FA08" box="[936,1045,1401,1427]" italics="true" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">Dreyfusia</emphasis>
)
<emphasis id="B91A2C6614D046BFB96E3305FB77FA08" box="[1062,1210,1401,1427]" italics="true" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">abietispiceae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and blue pine aphis in the Jaunsar Hills of northwestern Himalayas. During MarchApril, it attacks fundatrix adults and eggs of adults of
<taxonomicName id="4C6E8BF714D046BFBDFF33BDFD03FA40" authority="Schneider-Orelli &amp; Schneider" authorityName="Schneider-Orelli &amp; Schneider" box="[183,718,1473,1499]" class="Insecta" family="Adelgidae" genus="Adelges" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="136" pageNumber="137" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="knucheli">
<emphasis id="B91A2C6614D046BFBDFF33BDFEBBFA40" box="[183,374,1473,1499]" italics="true" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">Adelges knucheli</emphasis>
Schneider-Orelli &amp; Schneider
</taxonomicName>
on spruce and silver fir (
<bibRefCitation id="EFFF8D8514D046BFBEA433BDFA91FA40" author="Krishnaswamy, S. &amp; Chacko, M. J." box="[1004,1372,1473,1499]" pageId="136" pageNumber="137" pagination="92 - 96" refId="ref116416" refString="Krishnaswamy, S. &amp; Chacko, M. J. (1988) Population dynamics of Adelges knucheli and its predators in the north-western Himalayas I. Host phase: Gallicola. Journal of Biological Control, 2 (2), 92 - 96." type="journal article" year="1988">Krishnaswamy &amp; Chacko, 1988</bibRefCitation>
). It is associated with adelgids on spruce, silver fir, blue pine and other conifers at high altitudes (
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) in north and northwestern
<collectingCountry id="F379B0E414D046BFBC283075FE57F9B8" box="[352,410,1545,1571]" name="India" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">India</collectingCountry>
and Himalayas.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BD1F07414D046BFBD8F3051FC77F914" blockId="136.[151,1437,933,2039]" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">
Recorded hosts include the following:
<taxonomicName id="4C6E8BF714D046BFBF3C3051FD21F9DC" box="[628,748,1581,1607]" class="Insecta" family="Adelgidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="136" pageNumber="137" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Adelgidae</taxonomicName>
:
<taxonomicName id="4C6E8BF714D046BFBFBE3051FC48F9D3" box="[758,901,1581,1608]" class="Insecta" family="Adelgidae" genus="Adelges" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="136" pageNumber="137" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="undetermined">
<emphasis id="B91A2C6614D046BFBFBE3051FC82F9DC" box="[758,847,1581,1607]" italics="true" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">Adelges</emphasis>
spp.
</taxonomicName>
,
<emphasis id="B91A2C6614D046BFBED83051FC30F9DC" box="[912,1021,1581,1607]" italics="true" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">Dreyfusia</emphasis>
(as
<taxonomicName id="4C6E8BF714D046BFB9643051FB48F9DC" authorityName="Vallot" authorityYear="1836" box="[1068,1157,1581,1607]" class="Insecta" family="Adelgidae" genus="Adelges" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="136" pageNumber="137" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B91A2C6614D046BFB9643051FB48F9DC" box="[1068,1157,1581,1607]" italics="true" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">Adelges</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
)
<taxonomicName id="4C6E8BF714D046BFB9DC3051FEE2F9F0" authority="(Schneider-Orelli &amp; Schneider)" baseAuthorityName="Schneider-Orelli &amp; Schneider" baseAuthorityYear="1959" class="Insecta" family="Adelgidae" genus="Adelges" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="136" pageNumber="137" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="joshii">
<emphasis id="B91A2C6614D046BFB9DC3051FB1FF9DC" box="[1172,1234,1581,1607]" italics="true" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">joshii</emphasis>
(Schneider-Orelli &amp; Schneider)
</taxonomicName>
,
<emphasis id="B91A2C6614D046BFBC71302DFE6BF9F0" box="[313,422,1617,1643]" italics="true" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">Dreyfusia</emphasis>
(as
<taxonomicName id="4C6E8BF714D046BFBC9A302DFDE6F9F0" authorityName="Vallot" authorityYear="1836" box="[466,555,1617,1643]" class="Insecta" family="Adelgidae" genus="Adelges" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="136" pageNumber="137" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B91A2C6614D046BFBC9A302DFDE6F9F0" box="[466,555,1617,1643]" italics="true" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">Adelges</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
)
<taxonomicName id="4C6E8BF714D046BFBF72302DFBCDF9F0" authority="(Schneider-Orelli &amp; Schneider)" baseAuthorityName="Schneider-Orelli &amp; Schneider" baseAuthorityYear="1954" box="[570,1024,1617,1643]" class="Insecta" family="Adelgidae" genus="Adelges" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="136" pageNumber="137" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="knucheli">
<emphasis id="B91A2C6614D046BFBF72302DFD54F9F0" box="[570,665,1617,1643]" italics="true" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">knucheli</emphasis>
(Schneider-Orelli &amp; Schneider)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C6E8BF714D046BFB941302DFAAFF9F0" authority="Takahashi" authorityName="Takahashi" authorityYear="1931" box="[1033,1378,1617,1643]" class="Insecta" family="Aphididae" genus="Mindarus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="136" pageNumber="137" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="japonicus">
<emphasis id="B91A2C6614D046BFB941302DFB24F9F0" box="[1033,1257,1617,1643]" italics="true" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">Mindarus japonicus</emphasis>
Takahashi
</taxonomicName>
, blue pine aphis.
<taxonomicName id="4C6E8BF714D046BFBC5E3009FE42F914" box="[278,399,1653,1679]" class="Insecta" family="Aphididae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="136" pageNumber="137" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Aphididae</taxonomicName>
: Indeterminate aphids on
<taxonomicName id="4C6E8BF714D046BFBFE7300AFCE0F90B" box="[687,813,1654,1680]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Rosaceae" genus="Spiraea" kingdom="Plantae" order="Rosales" pageId="136" pageNumber="137" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="undetermined">
<emphasis id="B91A2C6614D046BFBFE7300AFCCBF90B" box="[687,774,1654,1680]" italics="true" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">Spiraea</emphasis>
sp.
</taxonomicName>
(label data).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BD1F07414D046BFBD8F30E5FC10F94C" blockId="136.[151,1437,933,2039]" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">
<emphasis id="B91A2C6614D046BFBD8F30E5FE73F928" bold="true" box="[199,446,1689,1715]" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">Seasonal occurrence.</emphasis>
MarchAugust.Collected during November,December.Commonly found in northwestern Himalayas at elevations of 70009000 during MayJune (
<bibRefCitation id="EFFF8D8514D046BFBE6F30C1FC1DF94C" author="Stebbing, E. P." box="[807,976,1725,1751]" pageId="136" pageNumber="137" pagination="47 - 62" refId="ref122979" refString="Stebbing, E. P. (1903) Coleoptera 2. Notes upon the known predaceous Coccinellidae of the Indian region, Part I. Indian Museum Notes, VI (1), 47 - 62." type="journal article" year="1903">Stebbing 1903</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BD1F07414D046BFBD8F309DFEE6F884" blockId="136.[151,1437,933,2039]" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">
<emphasis id="B91A2C6614D046BFBD8F309DFE5EF960" bold="true" box="[199,403,1761,1787]" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">Natural enemies.</emphasis>
<taxonomicName id="4C6E8BF714D046BFBCD3309DFD49F967" box="[411,644,1761,1788]" class="Insecta" family="Phoridae" genus="Phalacrotophora" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="136" pageNumber="137" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="undetermined">
<emphasis id="B91A2C6614D046BFBCD3309DFD96F960" box="[411,603,1761,1787]" italics="true" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">Phalacrotophora</emphasis>
sp.
</taxonomicName>
nr.
<taxonomicName id="4C6E8BF714D046BFBFF9309DFCA6F960" authority="(Fallen)" baseAuthorityName="Fallen" baseAuthorityYear="1823" box="[689,875,1761,1787]" class="Insecta" family="Phoridae" genus="Phalacrotophora" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="136" pageNumber="137" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="fasciata">
<emphasis id="B91A2C6614D046BFBFF9309DFCC7F960" box="[689,778,1761,1787]" italics="true" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">fasciata</emphasis>
(Fallén)
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="B91A2C6614D046BFBEED309EFBFEF960" box="[933,1075,1762,1787]" italics="true" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">Dinocampus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(as
<taxonomicName id="4C6E8BF714D046BFB92C309DFB09F960" box="[1124,1220,1761,1787]" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Perilitus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="136" pageNumber="137" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B91A2C6614D046BFB92C309DFB09F960" box="[1124,1220,1761,1787]" italics="true" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">Perilitus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) sp. (
<bibRefCitation id="EFFF8D8514D046BFB84E309DFED2F884" author="Nagarkatti, S. &amp; Ghani, M. A." pageId="136" pageNumber="137" pagination="58 - 88" refId="ref118026" refString="Nagarkatti, S. &amp; Ghani, M. A. (1972) Ecology and biology of predators. Coleoptera: Coccinellidae. In: Rao, V. P. &amp; Ghani, M. A. (Eds.), Studies on predators of Adelges spp. in the Himalayas. Miscellaneous Publication No. 3. Commonwealth Institute of Biological Control, Indian Statio, pp. 58 - 88" type="book chapter" year="1972">Nagarkatti &amp; Ghani 1972</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C374A3FF14D046BFBD8F3155FEEEF86C" pageId="136" pageNumber="137" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="8BD1F07414D046BFBD8F3155FEEEF86C" blockId="136.[151,1437,933,2039]" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">
<emphasis id="B91A2C6614D046BFBD8F3155FEDCF8D8" bold="true" box="[199,273,1833,1859]" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">Notes.</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFFF8D8514D046BFBC553155FE77F8D8" author="Kovar, I." box="[285,442,1833,1859]" pageId="136" pageNumber="137" pagination="1807" refId="ref116365" refString="Kovar, I. (2007) Family Coccinellidae Latreille, 1807. In: L ˆ bl, I. &amp; Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 4. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, pp. 568 - 631." type="book chapter" year="2007">Kovář (2007)</bibRefCitation>
wrongly used the name
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<emphasis id="B91A2C6614D046BFBFAE3156FC1BF8D8" box="[742,982,1833,1859]" italics="true" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">Harmonia expalliata</emphasis>
Sicard
</taxonomicName>
for this species and treated
<taxonomicName id="4C6E8BF714D046BFB8C93156FF32F8FC" authorityName=": Kapur" authorityYear="1963" class="Insecta" family="Coccinellidae" genus="Harmonia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="136" pageNumber="137" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="expallida">
<emphasis id="B91A2C6614D046BFB8C93156FF32F8FC" italics="true" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">H. expallida</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as its synonym. Kapur (1963) clarified the nomenclature of this species.
<bibRefCitation id="EFFF8D8514D046BFB90A3131FB35F8FC" author="Stebbing, E. P." box="[1090,1272,1869,1895]" pageId="136" pageNumber="137" pagination="47 - 62" refId="ref122979" refString="Stebbing, E. P. (1903) Coleoptera 2. Notes upon the known predaceous Coccinellidae of the Indian region, Part I. Indian Museum Notes, VI (1), 47 - 62." type="journal article" year="1903">Stebbing (1903)</bibRefCitation>
described and illustrated this species under the name “
<taxonomicName id="4C6E8BF714D046BFBF20310DFC1DF810" authority="Crotch" authorityName="Crotch" box="[616,976,1905,1931]" class="Insecta" family="Coccinellidae" genus="Hippodamia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="136" pageNumber="137" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="constellata">
<emphasis id="B91A2C6614D046BFBF20310DFCB7F810" box="[616,890,1905,1931]" italics="true" pageId="136" pageNumber="137">Hippodamia constellata</emphasis>
Crotch
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="B91A2C6614D046BFBE98310EFC2DF817" box="[976,992,1906,1932]" italics="true" pageId="136" pageNumber="137"></emphasis>
and provided notes on its life history, hosts and distribution. Later,
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studied its biology in detail and described and illustrated the immature stages and polymorphic forms of the adult. See
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for detailed description and genitalia illustrations.
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