Harmonia sedecimnotata (Fabricius)

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 : 146

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

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8273793

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Harmonia sedecimnotata (Fabricius)
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Harmonia sedecimnotata (Fabricius)

( Figs 102 View FIGURE 102 , 103 View FIGURE 103 )

Coccinella sedecimnotata Fabricius, 1801: 370 (Type locality: Indonesia).

Daulis 16—notata : Mulsant 1850: 296.

Callineda sedecimnotata: Crotch 1874: 161 ; Korschefsky 1932: 282; Bielawski 1959: 156.

Harmonia sedecimnotata: Timberlake 1943: 18 ; Poorani 2002a: 332; Yu 2010: 123.

Diagnosis. Length: 6.00–7.00 mm; width: 5.00– 6.30 mm. Form ( Fig. 102a, b View FIGURE 102 ) elongate, moderately convex. Ground colour ochraceous yellow to yellowish brown. Pronotum with a pair of black spots, one on either side of middle. Each elytron with eight black spots, arranged in a 2-3-2-1 pattern, rarely elytral spots much larger in size ( Fig. 102b View FIGURE 102 ), resembling a variant of H. eucharis . Ventral side uniformly yellowish. Abdominal postcoxal line ( Fig. 102c View FIGURE 102 ) incomplete, with an associated oblique line. Spermatheca ( Fig. 102d View FIGURE 102 ) and male genitalia ( Fig. 102e–h View FIGURE 102 ) as illustrated.

Immature stages. Larva ( Fig. 103a–d View FIGURE 103 ) yellow with black maculae; pupa ( Fig. 103e, f View FIGURE 103 ) creamy white or yellow with black maculae.

Distribution. India: Common in northeastern region (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal); Nepal; Bhutan; China; Taiwan; Indonesia; Malaysia; The Philippines.

Prey/associated habitat. Hemiptera: Aphidoidea :Associated with Aphis craccivora Koch infestation on Alnus sp. ; Mollitrichosiphum alni Ghosh et al. , Myzus persicae (Sulzer) and eggs of Angoumois grain moth ( Sitotroga cerealella Olivier ) have been used as laboratory hosts ( Semyanov, 2000). Found feeding on aphids infesting Bidens pilosa ( Sajan et al. 2019) . Associated with aphids on okra, eggplant, tomato, guava, chillies, and ornamental plants (Boopathi et al. 2020).

Seasonal occurrence. Collected during June from northeastern region.

Notes. Bielawski (1959), Miyatake (1965), Ren et al. (2009), and Yu (2010) provided descriptive accounts with illustrations. Singh & Phaloura (1990) provided a field key to the larva. Phaloura & Singh (1993) and Semyanov (2000) studied its biology. Boopathi et al. (2020) studied its biology and life table and found it to be a promising predator for controlling the cotton aphid, Aphis gossypii .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Coccinellidae

Genus

Harmonia

Loc

Harmonia sedecimnotata (Fabricius)

POORANI, J. 2023
2023
Loc

Harmonia sedecimnotata:

Yu, G. 2010: 123
Poorani, J. 2002: 332
Timberlake, P. H. 1943: 18
1943
Loc

Callineda sedecimnotata:

Korschefsky, R. 1932: 282
1932
Loc

Daulis 16—notata

Mulsant, E. 1850: 296
1850
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