Psyllobora bisoctonotata (Mulsant, 1850)

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 : 636-637

Psyllobora bisoctonotata (Mulsant, 1850) ( Fig. 11A–E )

Material Examined. [SINDH], 16, 1♀, Hyderabad, 14. VI.1972, leg. Ahmed; 26, 2♀, Karachi, 12.VI.1972, leg. M.I. Khan ( NHMUK) .

Diagnosis. Body ventrally black, head brownish yellow; pronotum and elytra brownish yellow; elytra with 18 black spots arranged in three horizontal rows across elytra ( Fig. 11A ). Length 3.0–3.3 mm; width 2.0–2.5 mm; body elongated. Eyes large, coarsely facetted; ligula anteriorly with thick, straight margin; submentum slightly broader. Prosternal process thick and broad without carinae; scuto-scutellar suture thick, straight; epipleuron narrow anteriorly and posteriorly, expanded medially, slightly emarginated. Postcoxal line V-shaped, reaching anterior margin of second sternite medially; depression on last sternite with setae throughout.

Genitalia. Penis thick anteriorly and posteriorly, medially narrow, deeply ascended terminally, opposite arm of penal capsule expanded distally, adjacent arm elongated and hook-like, terminal end of sipho acute, knife-like; median lobe elongated, pointed distally, broader proximally; parameres narrow, elongated, divergent; trabes thick, elongated, straight, margins deeply folded ( Fig. 11B–C ). Genital plates elongated and broadly pointed anteriorly; lateral plates broadly curved mesad; spermatheca with distinctly elongated cornu, narrow proximally, broader distally, not differentiated into ramus and nodulus ( Fig. 11D–E ).

Distribution in Sindh Province. Hyderabad and Karachi.

Figures

Fig. 11. Psyllobora bisoctonotata. A) Habitus, B) Tegmen, C) Sipho, D) Genital plates, E) Spermatheca. Scale bars = 0.2 mm.