Coccinella lama Kapur
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8261492 |
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( Fig. 53c View FIGURE 53 )
Coccinella lama Kapur, 1963: 35 (Holotype male, BMNH; Type locality: Tibet); Poorani 2002a: 325.
Diagnosis. Length: 4.50 mm; width: 3.30 mm. Form subovate, moderately convex, similar to Coccinella magnopunctata Rybakow but slightly narrower anteriorly and smaller. Head black with a pair of frontal white spots. Pronotum black, anterolaterally with a subquadrate white area with a wavy margin; scutellar shield black; elytra reddish testaceous with a large, inverted heart-shaped black macula with a whitish, semi-circular to subtriangular basal mark on either side of the scutellar shield; each elytron with four black spots arranged in a ½-1-1-1 pattern as illustrated in Fig. 53c View FIGURE 53 (From Kapur 1963). Genitalia not studied.
Distribution. Tibet, Mount Everest.
Note. Kapur (1963) described it in detail with illustrations of the habitus and the genitalia and provided comparative diagnostic notes to separate it from C. magnopunctata and C. septempunctata .
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Coccinella lama Kapur
POORANI, J. 2023 |
Coccinella lama
Poorani, J. 2002: 325 |