Coccinella transversoguttata Faldermann

POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, Zootaxa 5332 (1), pp. 1-307 : 91

Coccinella transversoguttata Faldermann

( Fig. 53d )

Coccinella transversoguttata Faldermann, 1835: 454 (Type locality: Irkutsk, Russia).— Mulsant 1850 a: 117; Crotch 1874: 116; Poorani 2002a: 327; Kovář 2005: 149; Ren et al. 2009: 188.

Diagnosis. Length: 5.70–7.30 mm; width: 4.30–5.60 mm. Form ( Fig. 53d ) broadly oval, dorsum moderately convex and glabrous. Head black, eye canthus and rather large roundly triangular spot on each side of frons white-yellow, each spot touching inner orbit of eye and frequently connected with eye canthus. Antenna pale brown, scape black with brown apex, two or three apical antennomeres infuscate. Scutellar shield black. Elytra orange-red with 11 black spots, scutellar spot rather large, triangular to pentagonal, rarely rhomboid, usually deeply emarginate posteriorly along suture, remaining spots arranged in a pattern of 1-1-1-2, elytral pattern often variable. Underside black, tips of antero-lateral corners of propleura and mesepimera whitish, metepimera dark or brownish with whitish stripe, elytral epipleuron orange-red. Legs black, anterior face of fore coxae with white-yellow to apricot spot as well as ventral furrow of each front femur in male with a long pale stripe (Slightly modified from Kovář 2005). See Kovář (2005) for detailed description and illustrations.

Distribution. India: Northeastern region (Manipur, Meghalaya ( Ghosh et al. 1977)); Nepal; Palaearctic region; North America.

Seasonal occurrence. March–May, November, January (label data).

Notes. Ghosh et al. (1977) recorded it from Meghalaya, northeastern India. Kovář (2005) treated the Palaearctic species of the Coccinella transversoguttata species group with detailed descriptions and illustrations. Gordon & Vandenberg (1995) described and illustrated the larva.

Figures

FIGURE 53. a. Coccinella longifasciata Liu; b. Coccinella tibetina Kapur; c. Coccinella lama Kapur; d. Coccinella transversoguttata Faldermann (BMNH, type material).