Coelophora nitidicollis Kapur

POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, Zootaxa 5332 (1), pp. 1-307 : 108

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8261536

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scientific name

Coelophora nitidicollis Kapur
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Coelophora nitidicollis Kapur

( Fig. 75a View FIGURE 75 )

Coelophora nitidicollis Kapur, 1963a: 29 (Holotype male, BMNH; Type locality: Sikkim).— Poorani 2002a: 329.

Diagnosis. Length: 4.25 mm; width: 3.70 mm. Form broadly circular, dorsum convex and glabrous. Dorsal side yellow, pronotum with a black macula on posterior margin occupying most of discal area except lateral sides and anterior margin; scutellar shield dark reddish brown; elytra laterally explanate, with two lateral stripes and one sutural stripe, not reaching apex ( Fig. 75a View FIGURE 75 ). Genitalia not studied.

Distribution: India (Sikkim).

Note. Kapur (1963) described and illustrated this species from Sikkim, and it appears to be rare and there is no matching specimen in any of the major Indian repositories. The holotype (BMNH) is illustrated here. It is similar to C. circumvelata , another poorly known species of the Indian region with black lateral borders of elytra.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Coccinellidae

Genus

Coelophora

Loc

Coelophora nitidicollis Kapur

POORANI, J. 2023
2023
Loc

Coelophora nitidicollis

Poorani, J. 2002: 329
Kapur, A. P. 1963: 29
1963
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