Calvia breiti Mader

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 : 52

publication ID

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8261472

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scientific name

Calvia breiti Mader
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Calvia breiti Mader

( Fig. 32 View FIGURE 32 )

Calvia (Anisocalvia) breiti Mader, 1932: 6 (Syntype; Type locality: Manali Kulu , Himachal Pradesh).

Calvia breiti: Korschefsky 1932: 589 ; Booth 1997: 930; Poorani 2002a: 323; Yu 2010: 53–54.

Diagnosis. Length: 6.30–6.55 mm; width: 4.32–4.50 mm. Form elongate, oblong, moderately convex. Ground colour dull yellow to yellowish brown, with bold, irregular black markings on pronotum and elytra ( Fig. 32a–c View FIGURE 32 ). Ventral side yellowish brown except abdomen with characteristic maculation ( Fig. 32d, g View FIGURE 32 ) and femora of all legs with a median dark patch. Head ( Fig. 32e View FIGURE 32 ) with inner margins of eyes strongly divergent.Antenna ( Fig. 32f View FIGURE 32 ) elongate with a distinct club. Abdominal postcoxal line ( Fig. 32g View FIGURE 32 ) incomplete. Male genitalia ( Fig. 32i–l View FIGURE 32 ) and spermatheca ( Fig. 32h View FIGURE 32 ) as illustrated.

Distribution. India (Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh); Pakistan; Nepal; Bhutan; Southern China.

Introduced in the USA (North Carolina) for balsam woolly aphid ( Adelges piceae (Ratzeburg)) but did not establish.

Prey/associated habitat. Adelges sp. ; Associated with adelgids infesting spruce, hemlock and other coniferous trees (label data).

Seasonal occurrence. A univoltine species, active during May–June, enters hibernation during winter ( Nagarkatti & Ghani 1972). Collected during April–May, August (label data).

Natural enemy. Tetrastichus sp.

Notes. Nagarkatti & Ghani (1972) studied its bionomics (as genus nr. Calvia ). Booth (1997) described and illustrated it and later, Yu (2010) recorded it from China.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Coccinellidae

Genus

Calvia

Loc

Calvia breiti Mader

POORANI, J. 2023
2023
Loc

Calvia breiti:

Yu, G. 2010: 53
Poorani, J. 2002: 323
Korschefsky, R. 1932: 589
1932
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