Neoryssomus germainii ( Crotch, 1874 )

Gonzalez, Guillermo, Cotoras, Darko D. & Grez, Audrey A., 2020, Annotated list of island lady beetles from Chile (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), Zootaxa 4852 (5), pp. 501-526 : 519-520

Neoryssomus germainii ( Crotch, 1874) ( Fig. 5a ).

Examined material: Not available.

Original reference: González (2019): “ Tierra del Fuego ”.

Comments: The species is distributed for most of the territory of Chile between the provinces of Choapa and Magallanes (González 2006). The Tierra del Fuego record needs to be verified.

Summary: The Coccinellidae fauna of the Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego is composed by eight species, seven of them natives (one possibly endemic) and one introduced. Six species are shared with nearby territories including the Magallanes province. Only two species reach areas of Central Chile.

Note: Brèthes (1925) mentioned many species from “Valle del Lago Blanco, Patagonia”. Even if that locality exists near Porvenir in the Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, it seems more likely that the real locality corresponds to Lago Blanco, in Chubut, Argentina, as it is considered by Gordon (1994) and against what is suggested by Zúñiga-Reinoso (2011). That is why the species mentioned by Brèthes are not included here.

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FIGURE 5. Island Coccinellidae from Chile, other tribes. a: Neoryssomus germainii; b: N. variabilis; c: Neorhyzobius fuegensis; d: Parastethorus histrio; e: Cryptolaemus montrouzieri; f: Novius cardinalis; g: Scymnus bicolor; h: Scymnus loewii; i: Hyperaspis festiva; j: Parasidis brethesi; k: Coccidophilus sp.; l: Stictospilus darwini.