Chilocorus politus Mulsant, 1850

Li, Wenjing, Huo, Lizhi, Wang, Di, Ahrens, Dirk & Wang, Xingmin, 2018, Contribution to the genus Chilocorus Leach, 1815 (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Chilocorini), with descriptions of two new species from China, European Journal of Taxonomy 469, pp. 1-34 : 5-6

Chilocorus politus Mulsant, 1850

Figs 1 , 21

Chilocorus politus Mulsant, 1850: 455 .

Chilocorus politus – Crotch 1874: 184. — Weise 1902: 507. — Miwa 1931: 87. — Korschefsky 1932: 240.— Nagaraja & Hussainy 1967: 252. — Sasaji 1968a: 20. — Chazeau et al. 1974: 280. — Hoáng 1983: 19.— Booth & Pope 1989: 360. — Cao et al. 1992: 153. — Poorani 2002: 312. — Kovář 2007: 593.

Material examined

CHINA: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region: 1 Ƌ, Hongqilinchang, Shiwandashan, 9 Nov. 2004, X. M. Wang leg. ( SCAU 20051206200).

NEPAL: 1 Ƌ, 1 ♀, Tansen, Palpa, Lumbini, 16 Oct. 2011, S.X. Ren leg. ( SCAU).

Distribution

China (Guangxi, Yunnan, Tibet, Taiwan) ( Fig. 21 ), Thailand, Laos, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Indonesia.

Figures

Fig. 1. Chilocorus politus Mulsant, 1850. a. Dorsal view. b. Lateral view. c. Frontal view. d. Abdomen. e. Penis. f. Apex of penis. g. Tegmen, lateral view. h. Tegmen, ventral view. i–j. Female genitalia. i. Ovipositor. j. Spermatheca. Scale bars: 0.1 mm. (SCAU)

Fig. 21. Distribution map. () = Chilocorus politus Mulsant, 1850; () = C. yunlongensis Cao & Xiao, 1984; (●) = C. nigricaeruleus Li & Wang sp. nov.; (Ǫ) = C. nigrita (Fabricius, 1798); (▲) = C. melas Weise, 1898; () = C. rubidus Hope, 1831; (■) = C. chinensis Miyatake, 1970; (□) = C. rufitarsis Motschulsky, 1853; () = C. hauseri Weise, 1895; () = C. circumdatus (Gyllenhal, 1808).