Singhikalia duodecimguttata Xiao

(Fig. 187)

Singhikalia duodecimguttata Xiao, 1992: 378 (Type locality: China, Wuling Mountains).— Kovář 2007: 599; Ren et al. 2009: 234.

Diagnosis. Length: 6.90–8.40 mm; width: 5.60–7.40 mm. Form broad oval, dorsum moderately convex and distinctly pubescent. Ground colour reddish; pronotum laterally very narrowly black, with a pair of transverse, roughly triangular black maculae on the posterior margin (Fig. 187b); each elytron with five large, black discal spots, one smaller, elongate oval spot adjacent to scutellar shield and one smaller apical spot as illustrated (Fig. 187a). Abdomen (Fig. 187c) with ventrites 1–4 medially black and laterally yellowish; abdominal postcoxal line (Fig. 187d) incomplete. Spermatheca (Fig. 187e) as illustrated, lacking a well differentiated nodulus and ramus. Male genitalia not studied.

Prey / associated habitat. Aphids (label data).

Distribution. Pakistan (new record); China.

Note. This is recorded for the first time from Pakistan based on a single female specimen at BMNH (examined).