Coccinella septempunctata Linnaeus, 1758

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 septempunctata Linnaeus, 1758

Coccinella septempunctata Linnaeus, 1758: 365: Korschefsky (1932): 486; Gordon and Vandenberg (1991): 847; Yu and Wang (1999): 94; Yu et al. (2000): 193; Irshad (2001): 1259; Poorani (2002): 21; Rafi et al. (2005): 45;: 188; Yu (2011): 45; Ali et al. (2012): 168; Ashfaque et al. (2013): 243.

Coccinella divaricata Olivier, 1808: 1001; Korschefsky (1932): 457; Mader (1930): 375; Gordon (1987): 13.

Coccinella confusa Wiedemann, 1823: 72; Mulsant (1850): 112 (as a var. of divaricata).

Coccinella brucki Mulsant, 1866: 90; Crotch (1874): 46.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 10; sex: 3 males, 7 females; occurrenceID: 61EA3796-071E-5D44-AA56-F70D67AC9873; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella septempunctata ; order: Coleoptera ; family: Coccinellidae ; scientificNameAuthorship: Linnaeus 1758; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Punjab; locality: Attock, Hazro ; verbatimElevation: 317 m; decimalLatitude: 33.89500; decimalLongitude: 72.48361; Event: samplingProtocol: mist net; year: 2014; month: 10; day: 1; Record Level: institutionID: PMAS-AAUR

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 3; sex: 1 male, 2 females; occurrenceID: F4F34E53-0E0E-5520-A98E-1A7F27F42E49; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella septempunctata ; order: Coleoptera ; family: Coccinellidae ; scientificNameAuthorship: Linnaeus 1758; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Punjab; locality: Rawalpindi, Neela Sandh ; verbatimElevation: 692 m; decimalLatitude: 33.66056; decimalLongitude: 73.38417; Event: samplingProtocol: mist net; year: 2015; month: 4; day: 9; Record Level: institutionID: PMAS-AAUR

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 2; sex: 1 male, 1 female; occurrenceID: 19F2E70A-D2C5-5A9F-A9FB-1172F7006397; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella septempunctata ; order: Coleoptera ; family: Coccinellidae ; scientificNameAuthorship: Linnaeus 1758; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Punjab; locality: Jhelum, Dina ; verbatimElevation: 277 m; decimalLatitude: 33.03000; decimalLongitude: 73.59277; Event: samplingProtocol: mist net; year: 2015; month: 4; day: 21; Record Level: institutionID: PMAS-AAUR

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 6; sex: 3 males, 3 females; occurrenceID: BF968727-2103-5057-88C2-CEA282CB0E84; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella septempunctata ; order: Coleoptera ; family: Coccinellidae ; scientificNameAuthorship: Linnaeus 1758; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Punjab; locality: Chakwal, Dhudiyal ; verbatimElevation: 507 m; decimalLatitude: 33.11000; decimalLongitude: 73.01222; Event: samplingProtocol: mist net; year: 2015; month: 5; day: 14; Record Level: institutionID: PMAS-AAUR

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 21; sex: 8 males, 13 females; occurrenceID: 80382456-22AF-513D-B27E-2228494A9776; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella septempunctata ; order: Coleoptera ; family: Coccinellidae ; scientificNameAuthorship: Linnaeus 1758; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Punjab; locality: Murree, Kuldana ; verbatimElevation: 1929 m; decimalLatitude: 33.92278; decimalLongitude: 73.40389; Event: samplingProtocol: mist net; year: 2016; month: 11; day: 11; Record Level: institutionID: PMAS-AAUR

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 5; sex: 1 male, 4 females; occurrenceID: 878644C8-0A79-517E-8FF7-6AEBC5DE2E68; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella septempunctata ; order: Coleoptera ; family: Coccinellidae ; scientificNameAuthorship: Linnaeus 1758; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Islamabad; locality: Ankara Park ; verbatimElevation: 504 m; decimalLatitude: 33.69139; decimalLongitude: 73.11194; Event: samplingProtocol: mist net; year: 2017; month: 11; day: 28; Record Level: institutionID: PMAS-AAUR

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 9; sex: 4 males, 5 females; occurrenceID: 288B917F-E5A6-5D45-87DD-C2953285E817; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella septempunctata ; order: Coleoptera ; family: Coccinellidae ; scientificNameAuthorship: Linnaeus 1758; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Gilgit-Baltistan; locality: Gilgit, Jutial Nala ; verbatimElevation: 1815 m; decimalLatitude: 35.88889; decimalLongitude: 74.34361; Event: samplingProtocol: mist net; year: 2018; month: 8; day: 29; Record Level: institutionID: PMAS-AAUR

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 8; sex: 4 males, 4 females; occurrenceID: 1EE70DDA-4329-53F4-A721-7A88F4E44301; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella septempunctata ; order: Coleoptera ; family: Coccinellidae ; scientificNameAuthorship: Linnaeus 1758; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Azad Jammu and Kashmir; locality: Muzaffarabad ; verbatimElevation: 682 m; decimalLatitude: 34.36056; decimalLongitude: 73.47639; Event: samplingProtocol: mist net; year: 2018; month: 6; day: 21; Record Level: institutionID: PMAS-AAUR

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 21; sex: 8 males, 13 females; occurrenceID: 454BB03E-2C9A-5C40-9717-9083B1707FA4; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella septempunctata ; order: Coleoptera ; family: Coccinellidae ; scientificNameAuthorship: Linnaeus 1758; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; locality: Abbottabad, Khanaspur ; verbatimElevation: 2362 m; decimalLatitude: 34.02056; decimalLongitude: 73.42583; Event: samplingProtocol: mist net; year: 2017; month: 5; day: 4; Record Level: institutionID: PMAS-AAUR

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 4; sex: 1 male, 5 females; occurrenceID: A47AEE9C-6D78-5D00-BE43-CAC1E51FEF87; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella septempunctata ; order: Coleoptera ; family: Coccinellidae ; scientificNameAuthorship: Linnaeus 1758; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Azad Jammu and Kashmir; locality: Neelum, Sharda ; verbatimElevation: 1967 m; decimalLatitude: 34.79389; decimalLongitude: 74.18167; Event: samplingProtocol: mist net; year: 2019; month: 8; day: 20; Record Level: institutionID: PMAS-AAUR

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 7; sex: 3 males, 4 females; occurrenceID: BB4D077F-FE96-5521-969F-7C794E3D955D; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella septempunctata ; order: Coleoptera ; family: Coccinellidae ; scientificNameAuthorship: Linnaeus 1758; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Gilgit-Baltistan; locality: Hunza, Aliabad ; verbatimElevation: 2222 m; decimalLatitude: 36.30611; decimalLongitude: 74.61833; Event: samplingProtocol: mist net; year: 2020; month: 7; day: 5; Record Level: institutionID: PMAS-AAUR

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: 1 male; occurrenceID: 0CA59878-8B92-553C-B1D9-13C0BFCD26A4; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella septempunctata ; order: Coleoptera ; family: Coccinellidae ; scientificNameAuthorship: Linnaeus 1758; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Gilgit-Baltistan; locality: Skardu, Kachura ; verbatimElevation: 2342 m; decimalLatitude: 35.43472; decimalLongitude: 75.45000; Event: samplingProtocol: mist net; year: 2021; month: 4; day: 5; Record Level: institutionID: PMAS-AAUR

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 6; sex: 3 males, 3 female; occurrenceID: 1B73ED17-38E8-509B-830D-AD6E0FDD7E63; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella septempunctata ; order: Coleoptera ; family: Coccinellidae ; scientificNameAuthorship: Linnaeus 1758; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Gilgit-Baltistan; locality: Astore, Rama ; verbatimElevation: 3093 m; decimalLatitude: 35.35889; decimalLongitude: 74.81111; Event: samplingProtocol: mist net; year: 2022; month: 8; day: 22; Record Level: institutionID: PMAS-AAUR

Description

Body (Fig. 5 A-D) oval, strongly convex and dorsum surface apparently glabrous; head black with pale yellow oblique spots near ocular margins, antennae and mouth-parts black; scutellum black; pronotum black with pale-yellow quadrated marking at anterior half of lateral margins; elytra reddish-brown or orange, with seven black spots, each spot nearly rounded and rather large, sometimes marging with each other and forming one or two large black spots, in different patterns; abdominal postcoxal line (Fig. 5 E) incomplete laterally and not recurved, expending to posterior margin ventrite 1, with an oblique dividing line close to postcoxal line. Male genitalia as in Fig. 5 F-H.

Measurements

TL: 6.63–7.20 mm; TW: 5.35–5.60 mm; HW: 0.86–0.94 mm; TH: 3.26–3.28 mm; EL / TW: 1.07–1.09; TL / TW: 1.24–1.33; PL / PW: 0.42–0.44; PW / EW: 0.63–0.65.

Diagnosis

Coccinella septempunctata can be easily separated from C. transversoguttata and C. undecimpunctata by having seven black spots at the elytra (Fig. 5 A-B), sometimes these spots merging and forming one or two large black marks at each elytron (Fig. 5 C-D); apex of penis flattened and with the triangular process, surrounded by a weak membrane (Fig. 5 F).

Distribution

It is a widely distributed species in Pakistan ( Rafi et al. 2005). Azad Jammu & Kashmir ( Hayat et al. 2017, current study); Baluchistan ( Mohibullah et al. 2019), Gilgit-Baltistan ( Ashfaque et al. 2013, current study), Punjab ( Khan and Sultan 1949, Gillani 1976, Ashfaque et al. 2013, Ahmed et al. 2017, current Study), Islamabad (current study), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ( Mohyudddin 1981, Shah 1983, Ullah et al. 2012, Saeed et al. 2016, Khan et al. 2007, current study), Sindh ( Ali et al. 2012, Ashfaque et al. 2013); – China, Nepal, Bhutan, India, Iran, Sri Lanka, Andorra, Austria, Azores, Balearic, Albania, Liechtenstein, Belarus, Cyprus, Netherlands, Belgium, Romania, Estonia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Finland, Germany, Afro-tropical Region, Bulgaria, Corsica, Croatia, England, Sweden, France, Greek, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Denmark, Macedonia, Madeira, Czech Republic, Malta, Norway, Slovenia, Ireland, Poland, Luxembourg, Ukraine, Portuguese, Russia, Sardinia, Latvia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland and East Palearctic, all being introduced to the Nearctic Region ( Poorani 2002, Kovář 2007, Jafari et al. 2015).

Ecology

Prey. Irshad (2001) and Rafi et al. (2005) recorded that this species feeding on Aleurocanthus husaini (Corbett) , A. woglumi Ashby , Aleurolobus barodensis (Maskell) , Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) , Dialeurodes citri (Ashmead) , Neomaskellia spp. ( Hemiptera , Aleyrodidae ), Adelges joshii (Schneider-Orelli and Schneider) ( Hemiptera , Adelgididae), Acyrthosiphon pisum Harris , Therioaphis trifolii (Monell) , Aphis gossypii Glover , A. fabae Scopoli , A. craccivora Koch , Capitophorus sp. , Myzus persicae (Sulzer) , Lipaphis pseudobrassicae Davis , Pterochloroides persicae Cholodkovsky , Macrosiphum rosae (Linnaeus) , Rhopalosiphum maidis (Fitch) ( Hemiptera , Aphididae ), Diaphorina citri Kuwayama ( Hemiptera , Psyllidae ), Pyrilla purposilla (Walker) ( Hemiptera , Lophopidae ), Centrococcus insolitus Ferris , Quadraspidiotus perniciosus Comstock ( Hemiptera , Diaspididae ) and Coccus viridis (Green) ( Hemiptera , Coccidae ), Coccidohystrix insolita (Green) and Ferrisia virgata (Cockerell) ( Hemiptera , Pseudococcidae ) ( Irshad 2001, Rafi et al. 2005).

In this study, this species was found feeding on Acyrthosiphon loti (Theobald) , Aulacorthum solani (Kaltenbach) , A. pisum Harris , Aphis craccivora Koch , A. fabae Scopoli , A. farinose (Gmelin) , A. gossypii Glover , A. spiraecola , A. solanella Theobald , A. punicae Passerini , A. verbasci Schrank , Brachycaudus helichrysi (Kaltenbach) , Brevicoryne brassicae (Linnaeus) , Capitophorus formosartemisae (Takahashi) , Chaitophorus populifolii Essig , Cinara tujafilina (Del Guercio) , Eriosoma lanigerum (Hausmann) , Hysteroneura setariae (Thomas) , Lachnus wichmanni Hille Ris Lambers , Lipaphis erysimi (Kaltenbach) , Macrosiphum pachysiphon Hille Ris Lambers , M. rosae (Linnaeus) , Meldnaphis donacis (Passerini) , Myzocallis pakistanicus Hille Ris Lambers , Myzus ornatus (Laing) , Myzus persicae (Sulzer) , Periphyllus sp. , Phorodon cannabis Passerini , Rhopalosiphum padi (Linnaeus) , R. maidis (Fitch) , Shivaphis celti Das , Schizaphis graminum (Rondani) , Sitobion avenae Fabricius , Tinocallis kahawaluokalani (Kirkaldy) , Therioaphis trifolii (Monell) , Toxoptera aurantii (Boyer de Fonscolombe) , Tuberolachnus salignus Gmelin , Uroleucon carthami (Theobald) ( Hemiptera , Aphididae ), Adelges (Dreyfusia) knucheli (Schneider-Orelli and Schneider) ( Hemiptera , Adelgidae ), Drosicha stebbingi Green ), D. mangiferae (Green) ( Hemiptera , Margarodidae ), Planococcus citri (Risso) , Phenacoccus solenopsis Tinsely , Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Green) ( Hemiptera , Pseudococcidae ), Dialeurodes citri (Ashmead) ( Hemiptera , Aleyrodidae ) Camarotoscena sp. , Heteropsylla sp. ( Hemiptera , Psyllidae ), some species of scale insects ( Hemiptera , Diaspididae ) and Phyllocnistis sp. ( Lepidoptera , Gracillariidae ).

Associated Plants. This species was collected from Cumium cyminum (Linnaeus) ( Apiales , Apiaceae ), Anthemis arvensis (Linnaeus) , A. tinctoria Kelwayi , Artemisia sp. , A. maritima (Linnaeus) , Carthamus oxyacantha Bieberstein , Erigeron canadensis (Linnaeus) , Parthenium hysterophorus (Linnaeus) , Sonchus asper (Linnaeus) Hill , Tagetes minuta (Linnaeus) ( Asterales , Asteraceae ), Brassica campestris (Linnaeus) , B. campestris var botrytis (Linnaeus) , B. oleracea (Linnaeus) ( Brassicales , Brassicaceae ), Capparis spinosa Linnaeus ( Brassicales , Capparaceae ), Moringa oleifera Lamarck ( Brassicales , Moringaceae ), Spinacia oleracea (Linnaeus) ( Caryophyllales , Amaranthaceae ), Bougainvillea glabra Choisy , Mirabilis jalapa (Linnaeus) ( Caryophyllales , Nyctaginaceae ), Abies pindrow (Royle ex Don) ( Pinales , Pinaceae ), Rumex dentatus (Linnaeus) , R. hastatus Don ( Caryophyllales , Polygonaceae ), Tamarix gallica (Linnaeus) ( Caryophyllales , Tamaricaceae ), Quercus baloot Griffith ( Fagales , Fagaceae ), Acacia farnesiana Wight et Arnott , Cassia fistula Linnaeus , Dalbergia sissoo Roxburgh , Medicago sativa Linnaeus , Prosopis juliflora (Swartz) de-Candolle, Sophora alopecuroides Linnaeus , Trifolium alexandrinum Linnaeus ( Fabales , Fabaceae ), Juglans regia Linnaeus ( Fagales , Juglandaceae ), Clerodendrum philippinum (Osbeck) Mabberley ( Lamiales , Lamiaceae ), Verbascum thapsus Linnaeus ( Lamiales , Scrophulariaceae ), Olea europaea Linnaeus ( Lamiales , Oleaceae ), Duranta erecta Linnaeus , Lantana camara Linnaeus ( Lamiales , Verbenaceae ), Hibiscus rosa-sinensis Linnaeus ( Malvales , Malvaceae ), Populus nigra Linnaeus , Salix alba Linnaeus ( Malpighiales , Salicaceae ), Lagerstroemia indica Linnaeus , Punica granatum Linnaeus ( Myrtales , Lythraceae ), Thuja sp. ( Pinales , Cupressaceae ), Psidium guajava Linnaeus , Syzygium cumini (Linnaeus) Skeels ( Myrtales , Myrtaceae ), Cyperus rotundus Linnaeus ( Poales , Cyperaceae ), Avena sativa Linnaeus , Arundo donax Linnaeus , Cynodon dactylon (Linnaeus) Persoon , Dactyloctenium aegyptium (Linnaeus) Willdenow , Heteropogon contortus (Linnaeus) Beauvois ex Roemer and Schultes , Phragmites karka (Retzius) , Triticum aestivum Linnaeus , ( Poales , Poaceae ), Berberis lyceum Royle ( Ranunculales , Berberidaceae ), Cannabis sativa Linnaeus , Celtis eriocarpa Decne. ( Rosales , Cannabaceae ), Eriobotrya japonica (Thunberg) Lindley , Hippophae rhamnoides Linnaeus ( Rosales , Elaeagnaceae ), Malus domestica Borkhausen , Prunus avium Linnaeus , P. armeniaca Linnaeus , P. persica (Linnaeus) Batsch , Pyrus communis Linnaeus , P. pyrifolia (Burman) Nakai , Rosa indica Trattinnick ( Rosales , Rosaceae ), Ficus sp. , Morus alba Linnaeus ( Rosales , Moraceae ), Aesculus indica (Wallich ex Cambessèdes) Hooker ( Sapindales , Sapindaceae ), Citrus sp. ( Sapindales , Rutaceae ), Convolvulus arvensis Linnaeus ( Solanales , Convolvulaceae ), Cestrum diurnum Linnaeus , Solanum nigrum Linnaeus , S. tuberosum Linnaeus , Withania somnifera (Linnaeus) Dunal ( Solanales , Solanaceae ), Ziziphus mauritiana Lamarck , Z. nummularia (Burman) Wight and Arnott ( Rosales , Rhamnaceae ) and Urtica dioica Linnaeus ( Rosales , Urticaceae ) (current study).

Figures

Figure 5. Coccinella septempunctata Linnaeus. A-D dorsal view; E abdomen; F penis; G tegmen inner view; H tegmen lateral view.