Priscibrumus himalayensis Kapur

POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to the lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part II. Tribe Chilocorini, Zootaxa 5378 (1), pp. 1-108 : 85

Priscibrumus himalayensis Kapur

( Fig. 62b )

Priscibrumus himalayensis Kapur, 1958: 333 .— Poorani, 2002: 313; Kovář, 2007: 595.

Diagnosis. Length: 3.00– 3.20 mm; width: 2.30–2.50 mm. Form short oval, convex. Head, pronotum and scutellar shield black, elytra reddish-testaceous, each elytron with an elongate, moderately wide, black dorsolateral band, a little longer than half of elytral length; suture with a black band starting a little below scutellar shield, apically and basally broadened and shaped like a wine glass ( Fig. 62b ); elytral epipleura reddish testaceous except black or piceous near apex. Occasionally the discal and the sutural bands meet at their basal ends.

Distribution. Nepal Himalayas.

References. Kapur 1958; Canepari 1997.

Figures

FIGURE 62. a. Priscibrumus disjunctus Canepari (BMNH); b. Priscibrumus himalayensis (Kapur) (BMNH). .