Phaenochilus indicus Miyatake 1970

Giorgi, José Adriano & Vandenberg, Natalia J., 2012, Review of the lady beetle genus Phaenochilus Weise (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Chilocorini) with description of a new species from Thailand that preys on cycad aulacaspis scale, Aulacaspis yasumatsui Takagi (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha:, Zootaxa 3478, pp. 239-255 : 248

2. Phaenochilus indicus Miyatake 1970

Phaenochilus indicus Miyatake 1970b: 113 (original description; morphological details and male genitalia figured).

Type material: Holotype, male ( EUCJ). Type locality: “ Chinchona , Anamalai Hills , 1,050 m (3,500 ft.), Madras State, South India.”

Remarks: Three other congeners possess immaculate yellow to reddish orange or ferrugineus elytra, but this is the only species of that appearance known to occur in India. It also differs from the similarly colored species in possessing a more compact antennal club with the last antennomere not much longer than wide ( Fig. 19). The male genitalia ( Fig. 10) and morphological details illustrated by Miyatake (1970b) suggest a close relationship to the melanic P. flaviceps ( Fig. 9), also described from Madras State.