Oenopia manipurensis Devi, 1989

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 : 288-293

Oenopia manipurensis Devi, 1989 *

Oenopia manipurensis: Shantibala & Singh 1991 .

Distribution: India: Manipur.

*Described in a PhD dissertation and not formally published.

Further notes

● Oenopia cashmirense ( Korschefsky, 1935) , originally described as Synharmonia cashmirense Korschefsky (1935:299) is included by Kovář(2007:621) as a distinct species in his catalogue of Palaearctic Coccinellidae . It is listed as a subspecies, Oenopia conglobata kashmirensis Korschefsky, 1935 in Wikispecies (URL: https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/ Oenopia _conglobata_kashmirensis) and the original paper / description could not be verified.

● Coelophora octosignata Mulsant, 1850 (listed by Poorani 2002a) is removed as it is treated as a synonym of Phrynocaria unicolor by Kovář (2007: 623).

● Bulaea nevilli (Dohrn, 1882) , included in Poorani’s checklist (2002) is removed from this list because of its uncertain status. The original description of this species suggests Illeis , not Bulaea , and Kovář (2007: 72) also proposed ‘ Illeis nevili’ (sic) as a changed combination for this name. Mader’s (1937) illustration of B. nevilli also indicates an Illeis sp. with black scutellar shield. The type specimen in Warsaw Museum was lost during the second world war and hence its status could not be confirmed (H. F̧rsch, in litt.).

● Coccinella nepalensis Iablokoff-Khnzorian, 1982 is removed following Kovář’s (2007: 72) observation that ‘it was extralimital and its description was based on material of Lioadalia flavomaculata (De Geer, 1778) , stated to be from Nepal but probably from Natal’.

● Coccinella krikkeni Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1982 was removed from the Indian checklist by Poorani (2004) following Vandenberg’s (2002b) observation that it was a synonym of Cycloneda munda (Say) , a species restricted to North America, and the labeling of the type material from ‘South India’ was a case of “accidental transport through commerce, or more likely, accident of mislabeling”.