Coccinella undecimpunctata 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 undecimpunctata Linnaeus, 1758

Coccinella undecimpunctata Linnaeus, 1758: 366; 89; Mulsant (1866): 85; Iablokoff-Khnzorian (1979): 66; Pope (1989): 651; Poorani (2002); Rafi et al. (2005): 48; Barševskis and Lazdāns (2010); Ali et al. (2012): 169; Hayat et al. (2017): 26; Poorani (2023): 91.

Coccinella aegyptiaca Reiche, 1861: 212: Mulsant (1866): 86.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 5; sex: 1 male, 4 females; occurrenceID: F0EA444B-478B-5D49-83C6-172B329090C1; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella undecimpunctata ; order: Coleoptera ; family: Coccinellidae ; scientificNameAuthorship: Linnaeus 1758; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Punjab; locality: Attock, Por Maina ; verbatimElevation: 508 m; decimalLatitude: 33.82764; decimalLongitude: 72.78734; Event: year: 2017; month: 5; day: 23; Record Level: institutionID: PMAS-AAUR

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 4; sex: 4 females; occurrenceID: FABB5CE1-B1A6-53D3-8E11-268AB889AF22; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella undecimpunctata ; order: Coleoptera ; family: Coccinellidae ; scientificNameAuthorship: Linnaeus 1758; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Azad Jammu and Kashmir; locality: Poonch, Rawalakot ; verbatimElevation: 1635 m; decimalLatitude: 33.85148; decimalLongitude: 73.77405; Event: year: 2017; month: 9; day: 13; Record Level: institutionID: PMAS-AAUR

Description

Body (Fig. 7 A) broadly oval, convex and dorsal surface glabrous; head black with two yellowish spots at frons, close to the eyes, mouthparts and antennae dark-brown or black; scutellum-black; pronotum black with pale-yellowish elongate marking at anterolateral margins; elytra orange-brown, with five black spots and one common scutellar black spot on each elytron, arranged as 1-2 - 2, spots round or oval in shape and near to suture relative larger than those of lateral sides; propleura and mesepimera tip white at anterolateral corners; metepimera black with whitish stripe; Male genitalia as in Fig. 7 C-E.

Measurements

TL: 4.56–4.91 mm; TW: 3.48–3.67 mm; HW: 1.02–1.27 mm; TH: 1.60–1.84 mm; EL / TW: 1.16–1.19; TL / TW: 1.31–1.34; PL / PW: 0.42–0.45; PW / EW: 0.64.

Diagnosis

Coccinella undecimpunctata is similar to C. transversoguttata transversoguttata in general body structure and colouration, but can be separated by having a penis guide gradually tapering towards a blunt apex in inner view (Fig. 7 D).

Distribution

Pakistan. Azad Jammu and Kashmir ( Hayat et al. 2017), Baluchistan ( Mohibullah et al. 2019), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ( Irshad 2001, Rafi et al. 2005, Saeed et al. 2016), Punjab ( Rafi et al. 2005, current study), Sindh ( Ali et al. 2012); – Austria, Australia, Azores, Balearic, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, China, Corsica, Czech Republic, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greek, Hungary, India, Iran, Italy, Luxemburg, Mongolia, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, North Africa, North America, Poland, Portuguese, Sardinia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden ( Poorani 2002, Kovář 2007, Jafari et al. 2015, Poorani 2023).

Ecology

Prey. Irshad (2001) and Rafi et al. (2005) recorded its feeding on Aphis gossypii Glover , A. malvae , A. nerii Fonscolombe , Myzus persicae (Sulzer) ( Hemiptera , Aphididae ), eggs of Pyrilla perpusilla ( Hemiptera , Lophopidae ) and Coccus mangiferae ( Hemiptera , Coccidae ). During the present study, Coccinella undecimpunctata feeding was reported on Brevicoryne brassicae ( Hemiptera , Aphididae ).

Associated Plants. It was collected from Brassica oleracea ( Brassicales , Brassicaceae ) during the current study.

Figures

Figure 7. Coccinella (Spilota) undecimpunctata Linnaeus: A dorsal view; B abdomen; C penis; D tegmen inner view; E tegmen lateral view.