Bulaea lichatschovii (Hummel, 1827)

Ali, Muhammad, Raza, Ghulam, Ali, Shaukat, Anjum, Syed Istiaq & Hussain, Ishtiaq, 2018, The Tribe Coccinellini Weise (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) in Sindh, Pakistan, The Coleopterists Bulletin 72 (3), pp. 629-638 : 636

Bulaea lichatschovii (Hummel, 1827) ( Fig. 10A–C )

Material Examined. [SINDH], 16, 2♀, Hyderabad, 14. VI.2009, leg. Ali ( NHMUK).

Diagnosis. Head posteriorly black around eye, black area bifurcating medially, vertex, frons, clypeus, mouthparts, legs, and venter light yellow with black pigmentation; pronotum yellow with seven black spots, five arranged near posterolateral margins, two elongated spots located medially and diverging from each other; elytra yellowish with 19 black spots including one common spot at anterior junction. Length 4.0–5.7 mm; width 3.4–4.0 mm; body elongate-oval, strongly convex. Eyes small, coarsely faceted; ligula anteriorly deeply notched; submentum laterally thick, anteriorly narrow with straight margin. Prosternal process with carinae broader anteriorly, not reaching anterior margin; epipleuron narrow anteriorly and posteriorly, expanded medially, slightly emarginated. Postcoxal line arcuate; terminal sternite deeply notched with small setae.

Genitalia. Penis thick anteriorl, narrower distally with slightly s-shaped terminal end; penal capsule with opposite thick, large, tetragonal, adjacent arm very minute, pointed; median lobe narrow, sharply acute apically, slightly longer than parameres; parameres strongly narrow medially, convergent; trabes broadly bifurcated apically ( Fig. 10A–B ). Genital plates elongated, straight, slender; lateral plates distinctly large, elongate-oval; spermatheca with cornu distinctly short, ramus longer than cornu, nodulus absent ( Fig. 10C ).

Distribution in Sindh Province. Hyderabad.

Figures

Fig. 10. Bulaea lichatschovii. A) Tegmen, B) Sipho, C) Genital plates with spermatheca. Scale bars = 0.2 mm.