Harmonia quadripunctata ( Pontoppidan, 1763 )

Biranvand, Amir, Nedvěd, Oldřich, Tomaszewska, Wioletta, Al Ansi, Amin N., Fekrat, Lida, Haghghadam, Zahra Mojib, Khormizi, Mehdi Zare, Noorinahad, Sara, Şenal, Derya, Shakarami, Jahanshir & Haelewaters, Danny, 2019, The genus Harmonia (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) in the Middle East region, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 59 (1), pp. 163-170 : 166-167

Harmonia quadripunctata ( Pontoppidan, 1763)

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Coccinella quadripunctata Pontoppidan, 1763 ; C. albida Gmelin, 1790 ; C. marginella Müller, 1776 ; C. marginepunctata Schaller, 1783 ; C. notata Olivier, 1791; C. sedecimpunctata Fabricius, 1781 .

Material examined. IRAN: NORTH KHORASAN PROVINCE: Bojnord County, Bojnurd, Baba Aman Park , 37°29.338′N, 57°26.123′E, vi.2013, 4 ♂♂ 4 ♀♀, (3 ♂♂ 2 ♀♀ ex Hordeum sp.), E. Hamidi leg., O. Nedvěd & C. Canepari det. SEMNAN PROVINCE: Shahrud County, Bastam , 36°30.314′N, 55°00.290′E, v.2014, 2 ♂♂ 1♀, M. Toozandejani leg., A. Biranvand det. TURKEY: BILECIK PROVINCE: Bilecik Central District, Pelitözü , 40°11′06.9756″N, 29°58′05.5704″E, iv.–xi.2015, vii.2016, 31 spec., ex Malus sp., Pinus sp., Prunus sp., weeds, D. Şenal leg. et det. ; Osmaneli District, 2.6 km NE Düzmeşe , 40°23′55.5″N, 29°56′40.092″E, vi.–ix.2015, vi.–viii.2016, 5 spec., ex Olea sp., Paliurus sp., Prunus spp., D. Şenal leg.et det. ; İnhisar District, Güner Orbay Mahallesi , 1.9 km NW İnhisar , 40°03′37.116″N, 30°22′5.088″E, vi.2016, 1 spec., ex Paliurus sp., D. Şenal leg. et det.

Notes. Harmonia quadripunctata was originally described from Denmark ( PONTOPPIDAN 1763). It is native to the Palearctic Region, distributed especially in Europe and eastern Asia – Russia, China, and Korea ( BIELAWSKI 1963, 1980; VANDENBERG 1990; PANG et al. 2004; KOVÁŘ 2007). However, there aresome reports of thisspecies from other countries of the Palearctic Regionincluding Syria ( KHALIL & MOURAD 2006), Israel ( HALPERIN et al. 1995), Lebanon and Turkey ( GÜNTHER 1958, BIELAWSKI 1963). Harmonia quadripunctata was introduced into the USA and reported there since 1924 ( VANDENBERG 1990). In southern America, introduced populations have only been reported from Argentina and Chile so far ( GONZÁLEZ 2006).

The earliest record of H. quadripunctata in Turkey was provided by GÜNTHER (1958). Since then, many studies reported H. quadripunctata in 22 of Turkey’s 81 provinces: Ankara ( GÜNTHER 1958, UYGUN 1981, ÜLGENTÜRK & TOROS 2000), Kayseri ( GÜNTHER 1958), Konya ( GÜNTHER 1958, ŞAHBAZ & UYSAL 2006), Adana, Afyon, Bursa, Denizli ( UYGUN 1981), Isparta ( UYGUN, 1981, ASLAN & KARACA 2005, KARACA et al. 2006, KAYA BAŞAR & YAŞAR 2011, OĞUZOĞLU 2017), Amasya, Samsun, Tokat ( KILIÇ & AYKAÇ 1989), Erzurum ( ÖZBEK & ÇETIN 1991), İzmir, Manisa ( TEZCAN & UYGUN 2003), Kahramanmaraş ( ASLAN & UYGUN 2005), Balıkesir ( VURAL VARLI et al. 2013), Artvin ( PORTAKALDALI & SATAR 2010), Çanakkale ( BAŞTUĞ & KASAP 2015), Bartın ( TOPER KAYGIN & SOBUTAY KAPTAN 2017), Yozgat ( TIFTIKÇI 2017), Düzce ( ÖZTEMIZ & YAYLA 2018), and Bilecik (this study).

In Iran, H. quadripunctata was first reportedfrom North Khorasan Province in 2013 ( BIRANVAND et al. 2017). It was subsequently reported from Mazandaran Province, in northern Iran ( PAHLAVAN YALI et al. 2017). Here, wepresent the first report from Semnan Province.

Figures

Figs 1–5. Comparison of dorsal habitus of H.axy- ridis (Pallas, 1773) (1–4) and H. quadripunctata (Pontoppidan, 1763) (5). Harmonia axyridis: 1, 2 – forma succinea (which we collected in Iran and Turkey); 3 – forma spectabilis (Iran and Turkey); 4 – forma conspicua (Saudi Arabia and Turkey).

Figs 6–13. Morphological characters of Harmonia species: 6 – H. axyridis (Pallas, 1773), prosternum. 7–13 – Harmonia quadripunctata (Pontoppidan, 1763): 7 – prosternum; 8 – hind leg; 9 – antenna; 10 – meso- and metaventrites; 11 – maxillary palp; 12 – abdominal ventrite 1 with postcoxal lines; 13 – mandible.

Figs 14–19. Comparison of male genitalia of H. axyridis (Pallas, 1773) (14–16) and H. quadripunctata (Pontoppidan, 1763) (17–19): 14, 17 – tegmen; 15, 18 – penis; 16, 19 – penis apex. All in lateral view.