Micraspis allardi (Mulsant), 1866

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 : 179

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

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8273827

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Micraspis allardi (Mulsant)
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Micraspis allardi (Mulsant)

( Fig. 126 View FIGURE 126 )

Lemnia allardi Mulsant, 1866: 249 (Lectotype, UCCC; Type locality: Northern India).

Verania allardi: Crotch 1874: 177 ; Korschefsky 1932: 307.

Micraspis allardi: Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1982: 510 ; Hoang 1983: 59; Poorani 2002: 335; Yu 2010: 127; Poorani et al. 2023: 467 View Cited Treatment .

Verania malaccensis Crotch, 1874: 177 (Lectotype, UCCC; Type locality: Gilolo).

Verania allardi var. malaccensis: Weise 1912: 115 ; Korschefsky 1932: 307.

Diagnosis. Length: 3.70–5.20 mm; width: 3.36–4.00 mm. Form ( Fig. 126a–d View FIGURE 126 ) subcircular, moderately convex. Head creamy yellow to orange-yellow. Pronotum creamy yellow or pinkish with a pair of black spots on either side of scutellar shield on posterior margin. Ground colour of elytra bright pink in live specimens ( Fig. 126a–d View FIGURE 126 ), yellow in preserved specimens, with four black spots, anterior pair transverse, sometimes quite narrowly so, posterior pair round to suboval, elytral suture with a black stripe; lateral margins of elytra transparent; sometimes elytral spots enlarged or smaller, rarely reduced or almost absent. Ventral side yellowish, mesepimeron white, metaventrite and abdominal ventrites dark pitchy black, legs yellowish brown except middle and hind femora brown to black in apical half. Prosternal process with carinae extending to the middle of prosternum. Abdominal postcoxal line ( Fig. 126e View FIGURE 126 ) incomplete laterally. Male genitalia ( Fig. 126f–i View FIGURE 126 ) as illustrated.

Distribution. India: Commonly collected in northern India, less common in peninsular India (Kerala, Bihar, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim); Pakistan; Sri Lanka; Bhutan; Nepal; Afghanistan; Myanmar; China; Indonesia; The Philippines; New Guinea.

Prey/associated habitat. Hemiptera : Aphididae : Aphis craccivora , Aphis fabae Scopoli , Aphis gossypii Glover , Lipaphis pseudobrassicae , Myzus persicae (Sulzer) . Lophopidae : Eggs of Pyrilla perpusilla (Walker) . Collected commonly on wheat, rice, maize, sugarcane, sorghum, and grasses; also associated with aphids on brinjal, cowpea, cabbage, potato, and mustard ( Omkar & Pervez 1999). Collected on custard apple, walnut, berseem and cucumber in Pakistan ( Hayat et al. 2017).

Seasonal occurrence. Collected during September–December (in large numbers), and February–March in north India; November (northeastern India). Found during April–October in Pakistan ( Hayat et al. 2017).

Notes. This species has been treated in detail by Kapur (1973), Iablokoff-Khnzorian (1982), Ren et al. (2009), Yu (2010) and most recently, by Ślipiński et al. (2020).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Coccinellidae

Genus

Micraspis

Loc

Micraspis allardi (Mulsant)

POORANI, J. 2023
2023
Loc

Micraspis allardi:

Poorani, J. & Booth, R. G. & Anuradha, C. & Gracy, R. G. & Thanigairaj, R. & Swathi, R. S. 2023: 467
Yu, G. 2010: 127
Iablokoff-Khnzorian, S. M. 1982: 510
1982
Loc

Verania allardi:

Korschefsky, R. 1932: 307
1932
Loc

Verania allardi var. malaccensis:

Korschefsky, R. 1932: 307
Weise, J. 1912: 115
1912
Loc

Lemnia allardi

Mulsant, E. 1866: 249
1866
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