Coccinella tibetina Kapur
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8261498 |
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Coccinella tibetina Kapur, 1963: 34 (Holotype male, BMNH; Type locality: Tibet).
Diagnosis. Length: 5.40–5.80 mm; width: 4.20–4.40 mm; form subovate, moderately convex, more or less like C. magnopunctata Rybakow in outline. Head black with a pair of pale testaceous frontal spots, one on either side of inner margin of eye; pronotum black with a pale testaceous, subquadrate, posteriorly emarginate spot at each anterior angle; scutellar shield black; elytra testaceous, one large, subquadrate to diamond-shaped black macula behind scutellar shield, each elytron with three black maculae, one lateral macula in line with the sutural spot, one transverse oval about midline and one transverse, roughly crescent shaped macula in the apical one-third (from Kapur 1963). Genitalia not studied.
Distribution. Tibet, Mount Everest.
Note. See Kapur (1963) for detailed description with illustrations. It is included here in view of the likelihood of its occurrence in the Himalayan range in the Indian Subcontinent also.
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Coccinella tibetina Kapur
POORANI, J. 2023 |
Coccinella tibetina
Kapur 1963: 34 |