Phrynocaria circumusta
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Description
Phrynocaria circumusta (Mulsant)
(Figs 163, 164)
Artemis circumusta Mulsant, 1850: 389 (Type material, MHNG; Type locality: Hong Kong).
Coelophora circumusta: Crotch 1874: 150; Korschefsky 1932: 291; Poorani 2002a: 328.
Lemnia (Artemis) circumusta: Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1982: 233.
Lemnia circumusta: Ren et al. 2009: 206.
Lemnia (Neoartemis) circumusta: Ukrainsky 2006 (replacement name for Artemis, preoccupied elsewhere).
Phrynocaria circumusta: Poorani et al. 2021: 119.
Diagnosis. Length:5.28–6.00mm;width: 4.50–5.30mm.Form(Figs163a, 164a)almost round,dorsum hemispherical, strongly convex and glabrous. Head and pronotum blood red or yellow. Elytra black with a pair of red anterior maculae of variable size on anterior margin (Fig. 163a), sometimes elytra largely reddish in anterior half, median area narrowly black and joined with a larger black macula occupying the apical one-fourth (Fig. 163b); rarely elytra reddish with four black spots arranged in a 1-2-1 pattern as illustrated (Fig. 164a, b). Abdominal postcoxal line (Fig. 163h) incomplete. Male genitalia (Fig. 163j, k) and spermatheca (Figs 163i, 164c) as illustrated.
Distribution. India (Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Kerala, Manipur, Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh); Nepal; Hong Kong; China; Taiwan; Thailand; Vietnam.
Prey/associated habitat. Adults collected on mango, sorghum (‘cholam’) (Subramaniam 1924b), and pine (data label).
Seasonal occurrence. Collected during April, June, and September (label data).
Notes. Subramaniam (1924b) gave brief notes on its distribution in India. It was also treated by Mader (1937), Rao & So (1967) and Poorani et al. (2021). Some of the records of P. circumusta from South India appear to be suspect in view of its resemblance to P. perfida Poorani, a species recently described from South India (Poorani et al. 2021).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MHNG
- Family
- Coccinellidae
- Genus
- Phrynocaria
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Mulsant
- Species
- circumusta
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Phrynocaria circumusta (Mulsant, 1850) sec. POORANI, 2023
References
- Mulsant, E. (1850) Species des Coleopteres Trimeres Securipalpes. Annales des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles, d'Agriculture et d'Industrie, publiees par la Societe nationale d'Agriculture, etc., de Lyon, Deuxieme Serie, 2, 1 - 1104. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 8953
- Korschefsky, R. (1932) Coleopterorum Catalogus. Pars 120. Coccinellidae II. W. Junk, Berlin, 435 pp.
- Poorani, J. (2002 a) An annotated checklist of the Coccinellidae (excluding Epilachninae) of the Indian subregion. Oriental Insects, 36, 307 - 383. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00305316.2002.10417335
- Iablokoff-Khnzorian, S. M. (1982) Les Coccinelles Coleopteres-Coccinellidae. Tribu Coccinellini des regions Palearctique et Orientale. Boubee, Paris, 568 pp. [in French]
- Ren, S. X., Wang, X. M., Pang, H., Peng, Z. Q. & Zeng, T. (2009) Colored pictorial handbook of ladybird beetles in China. Science Press, Beijing, 336 pp. [in Chinese]
- Ukrainsky, A. S. (2006) Five new replacement ladybird (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) generic names. Russian Entomological Journal, 15 (4), 399 - 400.
- Poorani, J., Sankararaman, H. & Anusree, S. S. (2021) A review of Indian species of Phrynocaria Timberlake (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) with notes on synonymy and a new species from South India, hitherto misidentified as Coelophora circumusta (Mulsant). Zootaxa, 4926 (1), 117 - 133. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4926.1.8
- Subramaniam, T. V. (1924 b) Some coccinellids of South India. In: Fletcher, T. B. (Ed.), Report of the Proceedings of the Fifth Entomological Meeting, 1923, pp. 108 - 118
- Mader, L. (1937) Evidenz der palaarktischen Coccinelliden und ihrer Aberrationen in Wort und Bild. Entomologische Nachrichten, Troppau, 11, 41 - 66.
- Rao, V. P. & So, P. Y. (1967) Notes on Coccinellidae of Hong Kong. Technical Bulletin, Commonwealth Institute of Biological Control, 9, 9 - 24.