Protothea decemguttata (Hoang)

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 : 253

publication ID

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8261751

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scientific name

Protothea decemguttata (Hoang)
status

 

Protothea decemguttata (Hoang)

( Fig. 182e–g View FIGURE 182 )

Nedina decemguttata Hoang, 1983a: 151 (Type locality: Vietnam).

Protothea decemguttata: Poorani & Ślipiński 2005: 329 .

Diagnosis. Length: 3.20 mm; width: 3.00 mm. Form almost circular, dorsum weakly convex, glabrous. Dorsal side yellowish with ten black spots on elytra arranged in a 2-2-1 pattern as illustrated ( Fig. 182e–g View FIGURE 182 ). Underside yellowish except prosternal process dark brown, characteristically at a plane higher than rest of prosternum. Genitalia not studied.

Distribution. India (West Bengal (Darjeeling), Sikkim); Originally described from Vietnam.

Prey / Associated habitat. Not known.

Notes. Hoang (1983) described it from Vietnam under Nedina . Poorani & Ślipiński (2005) transferred it to Protothea . Protothea firma Weise , the type species of Protothea , was redescribed as having five spots on each elytron by Iablokoff-Khnzorian (1982) and it could be a synonym of P. decemguttata as it has a similar elytral pattern.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Coccinellidae

Genus

Protothea

Loc

Protothea decemguttata (Hoang)

POORANI, J. 2023
2023
Loc

Protothea decemguttata: Poorani & Ślipiński 2005: 329

Poorani, J. & Slipinski, A. 2005: 329
2005
Loc

Nedina decemguttata

Hoang, D. N. 1983: 151
1983
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