Protothea Weise
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Genus Protothea Weise
Protothea Weise, 1898: 226.
Type species: Protothea firma Weise, by monotypy.
Nedina Hoang, 1983a: 150. Type species: Nedina flavescens Hoang, by original designation. Synonymized by Poorani & Ślipiński 2005: 329.
Diagnosis. Form short oval to almost circular, dorsum moderately convex and glabrous. Head without ventral antennal grooves. Antenna with terminal antennomere elongate oval. Prosternum with a large and prominent pyriform median process distinctly elevated from rest of prosternum and forming a chin piece, prosternal process with complete carinae, densely pubescent. Female genitalia with styli strongly reduced and barely visible.
Distribution. India, Myanmar, Vietnam.
Affinities. Tomaszewska et al. (2021) included it in the Coccinella- group of genera and recovered it as a sister group to a group of genera comprising Anegleis, Micraspis (Asian and Australian species), Xanthadalia, Declivittata and African and Malagasy species of Micraspis. Protothea comprises some of the smallest members of Coccinellini (Tomaszewska et al. 2021) and is readily separated from the other Coccinellinae of the Oriental Region by the unusual, characteristic structure of the prosternum, and the elongate terminal antennomere, the former character being unique and diagnostic. The large and pyriform process, on a visibly higher plane than the rest of the prosternum, is somewhat similar to that in the species of Pseudaspidimerus Kapur, 1948 (tribe Aspidimerini) and Propiptus Weise, 1901 (tribe Scymnini), but these genera have a densely pubescent dorsum and very short antennae. Poorani & Ślipiński (2005) synonymized Nedina Hoang with Protothea and the same nomenclatural act was later repeated by Kovář (2007).
Indian species. Two species, Protothea decemguttata (Hoang) and P. quadripunctata (Mulsant), are known from the northeastern region of India.
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Coccinellidae
- Genus
- Protothea
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Weise
- Taxon rank
- genus
References
- Weise, J. (1898) Ueber bekannte und neue Coccinelliden. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, Band I, 64, 225 - 238.
- Hoang, D. N. (1983 a) A new genus of ladybird beetles (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) from Vietnam. In: Medvedev, L. N. (Ed.), Fauna and ecology of the animals of Vietnam. Nauka, Moscow, pp. 150 - 156. [in Russian]
- Poorani, J. & Slipinski, A. (2005) Notes on the genus Protothea Weise with redescription of P. quadripunctata (Mulsant) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Coccinellini). Annales Zoologici, 55 (3), 329 - 333.
- Tomaszewska, W., Escalona, H. E., Hartley, D., Li, J., Wang, X., Li, H. S., Pang, H., Slipinski, A. & Zwick, A. (2021) Phylogeny of true ladybird beetles (Coccinellidae: Coccinellini) reveals pervasive convergent evolution and a rapid Cenozoic radiation. Systematic Entomology, 46, 611 - 631. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / syen. 12479
- Kapur, A. P. (1948) A revision of the tribe Aspidimerini Weise (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 99, 77 - 128. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1948. tb 01233. x
- Weise, J. (1901) Contribution a l'etude de la faune entomologique de Sumatra (Chasses de M. J. - L. Weyers) xve article. Coccinellides. Annales de la Societe Entomologique du Belgique, 45, 91 - 96.
- Kovar, I. (2007) Family Coccinellidae Latreille, 1807. In: L ˆ bl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 4. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, pp. 568 - 631.