Eoadalia juliae (Mulsant)

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 : 112

Eoadalia juliae (Mulsant)

( Fig. 75b )

Harmonia juliae Mulsant, 1866: 56 (Lectotype, UCCC; Type locality: “Les Indes-Orientales”).

Coccinella juliae: Crotch 1874: 110 ; Korschefsky 1932: 508; Gordon 1987: 13 (lectotype designation).

Eoadalia juliae: Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1982: 452 ; Poorani 2002a: 329.

Diagnosis. Form ( Fig. 75b ) elongate oval, dorsum weakly convex and glabrous. Ground colour yellow, head with a median longitudinal black macula connected to a larger, transverse black macula on posterior half; pronotum with a trapezoidal median black macula; elytra immaculate yellow. Genitalia not studied.

Distribution. India (Uttarakhand).

Note. This species is externally indistinguishable from Oenopia billieti (Mulsant) ( var. testacea Kapur ). The specimen illustrated here (examined, BMNH) was collected from Uttarakhand, northern India, and identified as E. juliae by R. G. Booth by comparison with the lectotype. It is almost identical to O. billieti in size and colour pattern and the genitalia could not be dissected for confirmation.

Figures

FIGURE 75. a. Coelophora nitidicollis Kapur (Holotype); b. Eoadalia juliae (Mulsant) (identified by comparison with the lectotype) (both from BMNH).