Cheilomenes Chevrolat
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8273729 |
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Genus Cheilomenes Chevrolat View in CoL View at ENA
Cheilomenes Chevrolat View in CoL in Dejean, 1836: 435.
Type species: Coccinella lunata Fabricius 1775 , designated by Crotch 1874: 179.
Chilomenes: Crotch 1874: 179 . Unjustified emendation.
Menochilus Timberlake, 1943: 40 View in CoL . Replacement name for Cheilomenes sensu Mulsant 1850 View in CoL .
Diagnosis. Form broad oval to slightly elongate. Anterior clypeal margin semicircularly arcuate between lateral projections ( Fig. 46a View FIGURE 46 ). Antenna ( Fig. 46b View FIGURE 46 ) 11-segmented, shorter than interocular distance, scape broader than long, with inner side strongly rounded and produced and outwardly carinate. Inner ocular margins straight. Terminal maxillary palpomere securiform ( Fig. 46c View FIGURE 46 ). Pronotum with anterior margin trapezoidally excavated and slightly convex, anterior angles narrowly rounded; sides gently arched with lateral borders narrowly upturned. Elytra narrowly expanded on the sides, not marginated. Prothoracic hypomeron lacking a fovea, prosternal process with a pair of short, abbreviated carinae reaching up to middle of prosternum ( Fig. 46d View FIGURE 46 ); anterior margin of mesoventrite weakly emarginate. Elytral epipleura very slightly foveate to receive meso- and metatibial apices. Abdominal postcoxal line incomplete, with a short, oblique lateral line ( Fig. 46e View FIGURE 46 ). Meso- and metatibial apices with a pair of spurs. Male genitalia ( Fig. 46f–j View FIGURE 46 ) with penis apex greatly attenuated, long and thread-like. Female genitalia ( Fig. 46k View FIGURE 46 ) with sperm duct very long and coiled ( Fig. 46l, m View FIGURE 46 ).
Distribution. This genus is widely distributed in the Oriental, Australasian and Afrotropical regions ( Ślipiński et al. 2020).
Affinities. Tomaszewska et al. (2021) included it in the Coccinella- group of genera based on their phylogenetic analyses and recovered it as a distinct clade including Elpis Mulsant and Menochilus Timberlake. The generic limits of Cheilomenes and its related genera, Elpis and Cydonia Mulsant , were discussed by Fürsch (1989) and Ślipiński et al. (2020).
Ślipiński (2007) used the name Menochilus for this genus in his review of Australian genera of Coccinellidae , but Ślipiński et al. (2020) used the name Cheilomenes in their conspectus of Coccinellini of Australo-Pacific region and the same is followed here.
Included species. In South Asia, this genus is represented by Cheilomenes sexmaculata (Fabricius) , probably the most widespread and well-studied species of the Oriental and Indian region.
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Cheilomenes Chevrolat
POORANI, J. 2023 |
Menochilus
Timberlake, P. H. 1943: 40 |