Revision Of The Australian Coccinellidae (Coleoptera). Genus Novius Mulsant Of Tribe Noviini Author Pang, Hong State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences / School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China; e-mails: Lsshpang @ mail. sysu. edu. cn, Tangxf 5 @ mail 2. sysu. edu. cn Author Tang, Xue-Fei State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences / School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China; e-mails: Lsshpang @ mail. sysu. edu. cn, Tangxf 5 @ mail 2. sysu. edu. cn Author Booth, Roger G. The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, UK; e-mail: r. booth @ nhm. ac. uk Author Vandenberg, Natalia Systematic Entomology Lab, Agricultural Research Service, USDA c / o National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution P. O. Box 37012, MRC- 168, Washington, DC 20013 - 7012, U. S. A; e-mails: VandenbergN @ si. edu or Natalia. Vandenberg @ usda. gov Author Forrester, Juanita Division of Science, Chattahoochee Technical College, 1645 Bluffs Parkway, Canton, Georgia, 30114, U. S. A; e-mail: juanita. forrester @ gmail. com Author Mchugh, Joseph Department of Entomology, University of Georgia, 413 Biological Sciences Building, Athens, Georgia, 30602 - 2603, U. S. A; e-mail: mchugh. jv @ gmail. com Author Ślipiński, Adam Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, GPO Box 1700, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia; e-mail: Adam. Slipinski @ csiro. au text Annales Zoologici 2020 2020-03-30 70 1 1 24 journal article 10.3161/00034541ANZ2020.70.1.001 b8147d5e-955a-4e04-8862-0a30cbfc084b 1734-1833 3776582 Noviini Mulsant, 1846 Nomiaires Mulsant, 1846: 213 . Type genus Nomius Mulsant, 1846 . Invalid name based on junior homonym. Noviaires Mulsant, 1846 : addenda et errata [p. 4]. Type genus: Novius Mulsant, 1846 . Bouchard et al. , 2011: 379 . Diagnosis . Adult. Body oval or elongate-oval, dorsum densely hairy. Head broad, with eyes large, densely setose, and broadly separated on vertex. Antenna with 8 antennomeres, distinctly shorter than head capsule, with scape enlarged; antennal club with 3 antennomeres, but divisions often indistinct. Terminal maxillary palpomere large and strongly securiform; labial palps with 2 palpomeres. Prosternum very short in front of coxae; prosternal process narrow and setose without distinct carinae. Elytral epipleuron complete, not foveate. Protibia angulate externally. Tibial spurs absent; tarsi with 3 tarsomeres. Abdominal postcoxal line recurved and complete. Larva. Covered by incomplete waxy secretion. Dorsal and lateral surfaces with small sclerites and nipple-shaped setose strumae. Head without epicranial stem, frontal arms variable. Antenna 1- or 2-segmented. Mandible unidentate apically. Ventral mouthparts at base fused into solid plate with lateral extensions encompassing labial palps ( Rees et al. 1994 ). Maxillary palp with 2 palpomeres. Abdominal segments 1–8 with gland openings on intersegmental membranes. Pupa. Almost entirely enclosed in last larval skin. Distribution . Worldwide but mostly in the tropics of the Old World.