Singhikalia duodecimguttata Xiao, 1992

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 : 260-261

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8261761

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scientific name

Singhikalia duodecimguttata Xiao
status

 

Singhikalia duodecimguttata Xiao

( Fig. 187 View FIGURE 187 )

Singhikalia duodecimguttata Xiao, 1992: 378 (Type locality: China, Wuling Mountains).— Kovář 2007: 599; Ren et al. 2009: 234.

Diagnosis. Length: 6.90–8.40 mm; width: 5.60–7.40 mm. Form broad oval, dorsum moderately convex and distinctly pubescent. Ground colour reddish; pronotum laterally very narrowly black, with a pair of transverse, roughly triangular black maculae on the posterior margin ( Fig. 187b View FIGURE 187 ); each elytron with five large, black discal spots, one smaller, elongate oval spot adjacent to scutellar shield and one smaller apical spot as illustrated ( Fig. 187a View FIGURE 187 ). Abdomen ( Fig. 187c View FIGURE 187 ) with ventrites 1–4 medially black and laterally yellowish; abdominal postcoxal line ( Fig. 187d View FIGURE 187 ) incomplete. Spermatheca ( Fig. 187e View FIGURE 187 ) as illustrated, lacking a well differentiated nodulus and ramus. Male genitalia not studied.

Prey / associated habitat. Aphids (label data).

Distribution. Pakistan (new record); China.

Note. This is recorded for the first time from Pakistan based on a single female specimen at BMNH (examined).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Coccinellidae

SubFamily

Coccinellinae

Tribe

Coccinellini

Genus

Singhikalia

Loc

Singhikalia duodecimguttata Xiao

POORANI, J. 2023
2023
Loc

Singhikalia duodecimguttata Xiao, 1992: 378

Ren, S. X. & Wang, X. M. & Pang, H. & Peng, Z. Q. & Zeng, T. 2009: 234
Kovar, I. 2007: 599
Xiao, N. & Li, H. 1992: 378
1992
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