Sticholotis punctata Crotch, 1874

Das, P., Saha, G. K., Chandra, K. & Gupta, D., 2022, New to the fauna of India ladybird beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), Far Eastern Entomologist 449, pp. 9-17 : 15-16

Sticholotis punctata Crotch, 1874

Figs 26–29

Sticholotis punctata Crotch, 1874: 201 ; Mader, 1955: 820–821, fig. 10; Sasaji, 1971: 73;

Ren et al., 2009: 34; Wang et al., 2017, 25 figs. 1-10 (body parts), 59-61 (habitus), 197-200

(male genitalia), 299 (distribution map).

Sticholotis rufosignata Weise, 1885: 239 .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. India: Meghalaya, Shillong, Cherrapunji , 24.XII 1958, 1♂ ,

col. A.P. Kapur [ NZSI].

and penis; 29 – distribution in India and China.

DIAGNOSIS. Body length: 2.1–2.5 mm; width: 1.7–2.0 mm. Body nearly round, hemi-

spherical, strongly convex, glabrous; head dark yellow; pronotum black with edges dark yellow; scutellum reddish brown; elytral dark yellow to reddish brown, margins wide, visible from above, 6 large black rounded spots, first pair on the humeral calli reaching basal margin,

second pair on disc slightly posteriad of half length of elytron, third largest on 2/5 length of elytral suture; fourth just before sutural apex; underside dark brown, with elytral epipleuron and legs yellow.

DISTRIBUTION. India (new record), China, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines (Ren et al.,

2009; Wang et al., 2017).

We are grateful to the Director, Zoological Survey of India for all the support. The authors are gratified to Dr Karol Szawaryn (Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish

Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland) for his support in the literature. We also wish to thank Dr Xingmin Wang (South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China) for his help in providing literature. The paper is a part of PhD work by the first author.

Figures

Figs 26–29. Sticholotis punctata. 26 – habitus, dorsal view; 27 – abdomen; 28 – tegmen