Eoadalia Iablokoff-Khnzorian

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 : 112

Genus Eoadalia Iablokoff-Khnzorian

Eoadalia Iablokoff-Khnzorian, 1976: 253 .

Type species: Adalia koltzei Weise, 1887 , by original designation.

Diagnosis. In the key given by Iablokoff-Khnzorian (1979), it is distinguished from other Coccinellini by its “elongate oval and narrow form, presence of tibial spurs and female genitalia with infundibulum long and tubular with a basal ring, spermatheca as in Adalia ”. A proper diagnostic account of this genus is not given because of the paucity of material for detailed study and a generic definition is not given by any other workers except Iablokoff-Khnzorian (1979; 1982).

Distribution. Palaearctic.

Included species. Only Eoadalia juliae ( Mulsant, 1866) is present in India and this species is of uncertain generic status.

Notes: The name Eoadalia was first mentioned as a new genus by Iablokoff-Khnzorian (1976) and later he included it in his key to the genera of Palaearctic Coccinellini ( Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1979) and mentioned Adalia koltzei (Weise 1887) as its type. He formally erected Eoadalia as a new genus again and designated A. koltzei as its type in his revision of Coccinellini ( Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1982) . Besides the type species, two Indian species, Eoadalia indica (Crotch, 1874) and E. juliae ( Mulsant, 1866) were initially included in this genus. Of these, E. indica was listed as a synonym of O. billieti by Poorani (2002). Tomaszewska et al. (2021) included Eoadalia under the Synonycha- group of genera and this genus was not included in their molecular analysis.