Phrynocaria unicolor
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Phrynocaria unicolor (Fabricius)
(Fig. 172)
Coccinella unicolor Fabricius, 1792: 267 (Type locality: India).
Coelophora unicolor: Mulsant 1850: 413; 1866: 275; Crotch 1874: 54; Korschefsky 1932: 297.
Lemnia (Microlemnia) unicolor: Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1982: 262.
Phrynocaria unicolor: Yu 2010: 80–82; Poorani 2002a: 339; Poorani et al. 2021: 128.
Coccinella congener Billberg, in Scĥnherr, 1808: 179.
Phrynocaria congener: Timberlake 1943: 34; Poorani 2002a: 338; Synonymized by Yu 2010: 80.
Phrynocaria nigrilimbata Jing, 1986.—Synonymized by Yu 2010: 80.
Diagnosis. Length: 3.42–4.62 mm; width: 3.12–4.20 mm. Form round, dorsum convex and glabrous. Head (Fig. 172h) with frons narrow, inner margins of eyes strongly divergent. A highly variable and polymorphic species with numerous variants and several intermediate forms. Nominate form uniformly orange yellow to reddish brown (Fig. 172d) on both sides; at least eight variants or varieties named, commonly found ones (Fig. 172a–c, e, f) as illustrated. Abdominal postcoxal line (Fig. 172g) incomplete. Male genitalia (Fig. 172i–l) diagnostic.
Distribution. India (Andamans, Assam, Bihar, Delhi, Jharkhand, Pondicherry, Orissa, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh); China; Thailand.
Prey/associated habitat. Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae: Aleurolobus barodensis (Maskell) on sugarcane; Dialeuropora decempuncta (Quaintance & Baker) infesting mulberry. Abundant in the oak forests of northeastern region, feeds on Tuberculatus indicus Ghosh on Quercus acutissima (Shantibala & Singh, 1991).
Seasonal occurrence. Collected during May, July–August (Orissa, Eastern India).
Notes. It is a highly variable species with many colour morphs and is commonly collected in northern states of India. Treated by Mader (1935), Kapur (1967), Ren et al. (2009), Yu (2010) and Poorani et al. (2021) with illustrations of the colour morphs.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Coccinellidae
- Genus
- Phrynocaria
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Fabricius
- Species
- unicolor
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Phrynocaria unicolor (Fabricius, 1792) 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
- Mulsant, E. (1866) Monographie des Coccinellides. 1 re Partie Coccinelliens. Savy et Deyrolle, Paris, 294 pp.
- Korschefsky, R. (1932) Coleopterorum Catalogus. Pars 120. Coccinellidae II. W. Junk, Berlin, 435 pp.
- Iablokoff-Khnzorian, S. M. (1982) Les Coccinelles Coleopteres-Coccinellidae. Tribu Coccinellini des regions Palearctique et Orientale. Boubee, Paris, 568 pp. [in French]
- Yu, G. (2010) Chinese Lady Beetles (The Subfamily Coccinellinae). China Scientific Press, Beijing, 180 pp. [in Chinese]
- 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
- 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
- Timberlake, P. H. (1943) The Coccinellidae or lady beetles of the Koebele collection - Part I. Hawaiian Planters' Record, 47, 1 - 67.
- Jing, X. L. (1986) Three new species of Oenopia Mulsant (Coccinellidae: Coleoptera). Acta Entomologica Sinica, 29 (2), 203 - 207.
- Shantibala, K. & Singh, T. K. (1991) Studies on the vertical distribution of aphidophagous coccinellids (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of Manipur and Nagaland. Journal of Aphidology, 5, 39 - 43.
- Mader, L. (1935 - 1936) Evidenz der palaarktischen Coccinelliden und ihrer aberrationen in Wort und Bild, l-Teil, Epilachnini, Coccinellini, Halyziini und Synonychini. Entomologischer Anzeiger, 1935 (15) & 1936 (16), 329 - 372 & 373 - 412. https: // doi. org / 10.1086 / 481877
- Kapur, A. P. (1967) The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of the Andamans. Proceedings of the National Institute of Sciences of India, 32 (B), 148 - 189. [1966]
- 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]