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Booth
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)
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<emphasis id="B9192C57FF93FF92FF77F90FFEF4F95E" box="[151,378,1688,1712]" italics="true" pageId="63" pageNumber="64">Chilocorus subindicus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFFC8DB4FF93FF92FE61F90FFDBEF95E" author="Booth, R. G." box="[385,560,1688,1712]" pageId="63" pageNumber="64" pagination="361 - 367" refId="ref32895" refString="Booth, R. G. (1998) A review of the species resembling Chilocorus nigrita (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae): potential agents for biological control. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 88 (4), 361 - 367. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0007485300042115" type="journal article" year="1998">Booth, 1998: 365</bibRefCitation>
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.—
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Li
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. 2018: 28
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<emphasis id="B9192C57FF93FF92FF77F949FE9CF916" bold="true" box="[151,274,1758,1784]" pageId="63" pageNumber="64">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
Length:
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. It is a sibling species of
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, which cannot be reliably differentiated by any external morphological characters. Form subcircular, more or less identical to
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in external appearance and coloration (
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), but appears to be slightly smaller in size and more convex, with the sides more steeply descending than
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. Abdominal postcoxal lines incomplete (
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).
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genitalia (
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) diagnostic, especially apex of median lobe broadly rounded in ventral view (pointed in
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) (
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) and turned slightly inwards in lateral view (
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) (turned outwards in
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), and the parameres without a pronounced angulation found in
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. Female genitalia (
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) and spermatheca (
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Fig.
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) as illustrated.
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: Southern parts of mainland
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and the islands just to the south (
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) (
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Islands [Kadmat, Kavaratti, and Minicoy];
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;
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);
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;
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.
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<emphasis id="B9192C57FFECFFEDFF27FF49FDE0FF16" bold="true" box="[199,622,222,248]" pageId="64" pageNumber="65">
Prey/associated habitat.
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</emphasis>
:
<emphasis id="B9192C57FFECFFEDFD9FFF49FD74FF16" bold="true" box="[639,762,222,248]" pageId="64" pageNumber="65">Coccoidea</emphasis>
:
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<emphasis id="B9192C57FFECFFEDFCEAFF48FC72FF17" box="[778,1020,223,249]" italics="true" pageId="64" pageNumber="65">Aspidiotus destructor</emphasis>
Signoret
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="B9192C57FFECFFEDFB93FF48FADFFF16" box="[1139,1361,223,248]" italics="true" pageId="64" pageNumber="65">Parasaissetia nigra</emphasis>
(Nietner)
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, and?
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<emphasis id="B9192C57FFECFFEDFEEBFE94FEE1FEF3" box="[267,367,259,285]" italics="true" pageId="64" pageNumber="65">Saissetia</emphasis>
sp.
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Collected in association with scales infesting coconut, brinjal, bamboo, banana, and
<emphasis id="B9192C57FFECFFEDFADAFE94FE8FFEAE" italics="true" pageId="64" pageNumber="65">
<taxonomicName id="4C6D8BC6FFECFFEDFADAFE94FF77FEAE" class="Insecta" family="Cicadellidae" genus="Morinda" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="64" pageNumber="65" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="tinctoria">Morinda tinctoria</taxonomicName>
;
</emphasis>
mealybugs (based on label data;
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).
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B9192C57FFECFFEDFF27FEDDFE4FFE8B" bold="true" box="[199,449,330,357]" pageId="64" pageNumber="65">Seasonal occurrence.</emphasis>
Collected during March-May (
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Islands) (label data).
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B9192C57FFECFFEDFF27FEF8FE9FFE67" bold="true" box="[199,273,367,393]" pageId="64" pageNumber="65">Notes.</emphasis>
Though this species is very similar to
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<emphasis id="B9192C57FFECFFEDFD30FEF8FCB1FE66" box="[720,831,367,393]" italics="true" pageId="64" pageNumber="65">C. nigrita</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and coexists with the latter in part of its distribution range (particularly in coastal
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,
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and Andaman Islands), it does not appear to have been used successfully in any deliberate biological control introductions (
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). These two species can be reliably separated only by the male genitalia.
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provided a detailed description with male genitalia illustrations. Collections from
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and Andaman islands invariably consist of both species with a fairly large proportion of
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<emphasis id="B9192C57FFECFFEDFF08FDB4FE0FFDD3" box="[232,385,547,573]" italics="true" pageId="64" pageNumber="65">C. subindicus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and may be misidentified as
<emphasis id="B9192C57FFECFFEDFD29FDB4FCB3FDD2" box="[713,829,547,573]" italics="true" pageId="64" pageNumber="65">
<taxonomicName id="4C6D8BC6FFECFFEDFD29FDB4FCB7FDD2" baseAuthorityName="Fabricius" baseAuthorityYear="1798" box="[713,825,547,573]" class="Insecta" family="Coccinellidae" genus="Chilocorus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="64" pageNumber="65" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nigrita">C. nigrita</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
</paragraph>
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