Coccinella transversoguttata transversoguttata Faldermann, 1835

Iqbal, Zafar, Azad, Rashid, Jin, Xu, Hassan, Muhammad Asghar, Abbas, Munawar, Nasir, Muhammad Farooq, Bodlah, Imran, Ali, Muhammad, Szawaryn, Karol & Nie, Rui-E, 2024, The review of the genus Coccinella (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) from Pakistan, Biodiversity Data Journal 12, pp. e 137417-e 137417 : e137417-

Coccinella transversoguttata transversoguttata Faldermann, 1835

Coccinella transversoguttata Faldermann, 1835: 454: Mulsant (1850): 117; Crotch (1874): 116; Weise (1885): 28; Jacobson (1915): 982; Dobzhansky (1926): 21; Mader (1930): 150; Iablokoff-Khnzorian (1979): 67; Fürsch (1981): 82; Iablokoff-Khnzorian (1982): 364; Bielawski (1984): 417; Poorani (2002): 327; Kovář (2005): 149; Ren et al. (2009): 188; Ashfaque et al. (2013): 245; Poorani (2023): 91.

Coccinella transversoguttata var. Sedakovi Weise, 1889: 537.

Coccinella geminopunctata Liu, 1962: 265: Iablokoff-Khnzorian (1979): 68; Iablokoff-Khnzorian (1982): 362.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 5; sex: 2 males, 3 females; occurrenceID: 050C38E8-D35B-55DF-82A6-57329E904A42; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella transversoguttata transversoguttata ; order: Coleoptera ; family: Coccinellidae ; scientificNameAuthorship: Faldermann, 1835; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Gilgit-Baltistan; locality: Ghanche, Barah ; verbatimElevation: 2466 m; decimalLatitude: 35.20556; decimalLongitude: 76.27444; Event: samplingProtocol: mist net; year: 2015; month: 7; day: 13; Record Level: institutionID: PMAR-AAU

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: 1 male; occurrenceID: 7646AEA8-A4D7-5142-A3CD-4F6B1989FFB5; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella transversoguttata transversoguttata ; order: Coleoptera ; family: Coccinellidae ; scientificNameAuthorship: Faldermann, 1835; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Gilgit-Baltistan; locality: Ghanche, Khapulo ; verbatimElevation: 2671 m; decimalLatitude: 35.15222; decimalLongitude: 76.335; Event: samplingProtocol: mist net; year: 2015; month: 7; day: 13; Record Level: institutionID: PMAR-AAU

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: 1 male; occurrenceID: DBA275C1-CA5C-5316-965B-DD749154F96B; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella transversoguttata transversoguttata ; order: Coleoptera ; family: Coccinelidae; scientificNameAuthorship: Faldermann, 1835; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Gilgit-Baltistan; locality: Ghanche, Keris ; verbatimElevation: 2284 m; decimalLatitude: 35.23361; decimalLongitude: 75.94028; Event: samplingProtocol: mist net; year: 2015; month: 7; day: 14; Record Level: institutionID: PMAR-AAU

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 2; sex: 1 male, 1 female; occurrenceID: AA8990E9-8FED-52AD-A30B-9AFBAB5E6251; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella transversoguttata transversoguttata ; order: Coleoptera ; family: Coccinellidae ; scientificNameAuthorship: Faldermann, 1835; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Gilgit-Baltistan; locality: Skardu, Gol ; verbatimElevation: 2337 m; decimalLatitude: 35.25083; decimalLongitude: 75.865; Event: samplingProtocol: mist net; year: 2015; month: 8; day: 5; Record Level: institutionID: PMAR-AAU

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 2; sex: 1 male, 1 female; occurrenceID: 29EE074B-6E9D-53D2-B165-4DB5F3DE9785; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella transversoguttata transversoguttata ; order: Coleoptera ; family: Coccinellidae ; scientificNameAuthorship: Faldermann, 1835; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Gilgit-Baltistan; locality: Ghizer, Iskoman, Shones ; verbatimElevation: 2236 m; decimalLatitude: 36.47333; decimalLongitude: 73.84722; Event: samplingProtocol: mist net; year: 2015; month: 7; day: 22; Record Level: institutionID: PMAR-AAU

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: 1 female; occurrenceID: F648B22E-FA46-530A-A0FF-136BBDE3F5F6; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella transversoguttata transversoguttata ; order: Coleoptera ; family: Coccinellidae ; scientificNameAuthorship: Faldermann, 1835; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Gilgit-Baltistan; locality: Ghizer, Gupis, Shamaran ; verbatimElevation: 2625 m; decimalLatitude: 36.17722; decimalLongitude: 72.98555; Event: samplingProtocol: mist net; year: 2015; month: 8; day: 4; Record Level: institutionID: PMAR-AAU

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 7; sex: 3 males, 4 females; occurrenceID: ED168A38-6626-531E-8CB0-E3C2BA1B0849; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella transversoguttata transversoguttata ; order: Coleoptera ; family: Coccinellidae ; scientificNameAuthorship: Faldermann, 1835; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Gilgit-Baltistan; locality: Ghizer, Yasin, Hunder ; verbatimElevation: 2500 m; decimalLatitude: 36.51376; decimalLongitude: 73.41472; Event: samplingProtocol: mist net; year: 2015; month: 8; day: 5; Record Level: institutionID: PMAR-AAU

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 3; sex: 1 male, 2 females; occurrenceID: 652BAA3D-E959-5E00-BB04-BAE6D85E44D6; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella transversoguttata transversoguttata ; order: Coleoptera ; family: Coccinellidae ; scientificNameAuthorship: Faldermann, 1835; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; locality: Chitral, Booni ; verbatimElevation: 2621 m; decimalLatitude: 36.24917; decimalLongitude: 72.25944; Event: samplingProtocol: mist net; year: 2017; month: 7; day: 20; Record Level: institutionID: PMAR-AAU

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: 1 male; occurrenceID: 721E9E31-8733-5ECD-B3B5-49A0343566E4; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella transversoguttata transversoguttata ; order: Coleoptera ; family: Coccinellidae ; scientificNameAuthorship: Faldermann, 1835; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Gilgit-Baltistan; locality: Ghanche, Ghorg ; verbatimElevation: 2439 m; decimalLatitude: 35.31583; decimalLongitude: 75.86417; Event: samplingProtocol: mist net; year: 2017; month: 8; day: 9; Record Level: institutionID: PMAR-AAU

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: 1 male; occurrenceID: 1A6AB1B5-172C-51AB-9180-3960685BFD45; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella transversoguttata transversoguttata ; order: Coleoptera ; family: Coccinellidae ; scientificNameAuthorship: Faldermann, 1835; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Gilgit-Baltistan; locality: Ghanche, Keris ; verbatimElevation: 2284 m; decimalLatitude: 35.23361; decimalLongitude: 75.94028; Event: samplingProtocol: mist net; year: 2015; month: 7; day: 14; Record Level: institutionID: PMAR-AAU

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 3; sex: 1 male, 2 females; occurrenceID: 0FE34CBF-0EFD-5FBE-87E4-A8440449BA38; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella transversoguttata transversoguttata ; order: Coleoptera ; family: Coccinellidae ; scientificNameAuthorship: Faldermann, 1835; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Gilgit-Baltistan; locality: Hunza, Aliabad ; verbatimElevation: 2222 m; decimalLatitude: 36.30611; decimalLongitude: 74.61833; Event: samplingProtocol: mist net; year: 2018; month: 6; day: 2; Record Level: institutionID: PMAR-AAU

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 13; sex: 3 males, 10 females; occurrenceID: 0BBB6FDA-08A5-55D9-8BFD-DDA7AC973DD4; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella transversoguttata transversoguttata ; order: Coleoptera ; family: Coccinellidae ; scientificNameAuthorship: Faldermann, 1835; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Gilgit-Baltistan; locality: Ghizer, Punyial, Gahkuch-Bala ; verbatimElevation: 2129 m; decimalLatitude: 37.51; decimalLongitude: 73.78; Event: samplingProtocol: mist net; year: 2019; month: 8; day: 3; Record Level: institutionID: PMAR-AAU

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 16; sex: 9 males, 7 females; occurrenceID: C0700BF0-E031-56C3-A6F9-B84E5D7FAC50; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella transversoguttata transversoguttata ; order: Coleoptera ; family: Coccinellidae ; scientificNameAuthorship: Faldermann, 1835; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Gilgit-Baltistan; locality: Skardu, Hussainabad ; verbatimElevation: 2313 m; decimalLatitude: 35.18028; decimalLongitude: 75.90694; Event: samplingProtocol: mist net; year: 2022; month: 5; day: 22; Record Level: institutionID: PMAR-AAU

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 2; sex: 2 males; occurrenceID: 8444405C-28F7-5617-90BD-0EBA50C1994A; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella transversoguttata transversoguttata ; order: Coleoptera ; family: Coccinellidae ; scientificNameAuthorship: Faldermann, 1835; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Gilgit-Baltistan; locality: Skardu, Olding ; verbatimElevation: 2253 m; decimalLatitude: 35.2925; decimalLongitude: 75.6538; Event: samplingProtocol: mist net; year: 2022; month: 6; day: 19; Record Level: institutionID: PMAR-AAU

Description

Body (Fig. 6 A) broadly oval and dorsum glabrous; head black with large roundly triangular white-yellow to pale-yellow spots on each side of frons, connected with the inner orbit of eyes; mouthparts with antennae black; scutellum black; pronotum black with anterior corners white-yellow, connected at anterior margins; elytra reddish-orange, with eleven black spots, scutellar spot triangular, emarginate posteriorly along the suture, humeral spot small, lateral spots small, sub-rounded and slightly closer to lateral margin, discal spot large and transversely oval to sub-quadrate, marginal spots small and sub-rounded, apical spot moderately large and rounded; underside black, apical of propleura and mesepimera white at anterolateral corners, metepimera dark brown with whitish stripe; Male genitalia can be seen in Fig. 6 C-F.

Measurements

TL: 5.23–6.43 mm; TW: 3.95–5.00 mm; HW: 1.28–1.52 mm; TH: 2.15–2.40 mm; EL / TW: 1.10–1.14; TL / TW: 1.29–1.32; PL / PW: 0.51–0.53.

Diagnosis

Coccinella transversoguttata transversoguttata is similar to C. undecimpunctata in external structure and colouration, but can be separated from the latter by a diagnostic character; penis-guide in inner view, rhomboidally dilated with apical hastate (Fig. 6 E), but in C. undecimpunctata penis-guide in inner view, gradually tapering towards its blunt apex.

Distribution

Pakistan. Gilgit-Baltistan ( Rafi et al. 2005, Ashfaque et al. 2013, current study), Baluchistan ( Mohibullah et al. 2019), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (current study); – China, India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Russia, northern Scandinavia ( Poorani 2002, Kovář 2005, Kovář 2007, Poorani 2023).

Ecology

Prey. Rafi et al. (2005) reported that this species fed on Aphis craccivora Koch , A. fabae Scopoli , A. gossypii Glover , Myzus persicae (Sulzer) , Lipaphis pseudobrassicae Davis , Macrosiphum rosae (Linnaeus) , Rhopalosiphum maidis (Fitch) , Therioaphis trifolii (Monell) and Pterochloroides persicae Cholodkovsky ( Hemiptera , Aphididae ).

In the current study, this species has been recorded from the following aphid species: Acyrthosiphon pisum Harris , Lachnus wichmanni Hille Ris Lambers , Macrosiphum pachysiphon Hille Ris Lambers , Aphis craccivora Koch , A. fabae Scopoli , A. nerii Fonscolombe , A. farinose (Gmelin) , A. gossypii Glover , Schizaphis graminum (Rondani) , Tuberolachnus salignus Gmelin and Toxoptera aurantii (Boyer de Fonscolombe) ( Hemiptera , Aphididae ).

Associated Plants. It is collected from the following plants: Erigeron canadensis (Linnaeus) ( Asterales , Asteraceae ), Capparis spinosa Linnaeus ( Brassicales , Capparaceae ), Convolvulus arvensis Linnaeus ( Solanales , Convolvulaceae ), Hippophae rhamnoides Linnaeus ( Rosales , Elaeagnaceae ), Salix alba Linnaeus ( Malpighiales , Salicaceae ), Sophora alopecuroides Linnaeus ( Fabales , Fabaceae ), Rumex dentatus (Linnaeus) ( Caryophyllales , Polygonaceae ), Phragmites karka (Retzius) , Triticum aestivum Linnaeus ( Poales , Poaceae ) and Rosa indica Trattinnick ( Rosales , Rosaceae ).

Notes

See Kovář (2005) for a detailed description and illustration.

Figures

Figure 6. Coccinella transversoguttata transversoguttata Faldermanna: A dorsal view; B abdomen; C penis; D penis apex; E tegmen inner view; F tegmen lateral-view.