Chilocorus hauseri Weise 1895
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Chilocorus hauseri Weise
(Figs 32, 33)
Chilocorus hauseri Weise, 1895a: 135.
Chilocorus hauseri: Sicard 1913: 500; Korschefsky 1932: 243; Liu 1963: 77; Nagaraja & Hussainy 1967: 250; Pang & Mao 1979: 82; Hoáng 1983: 21; Cao et al. 1992: 156; Pang et al. 2002: 318, 2004: 28; Poorani 2002: 311; Kovář 2007: 593; Ren et al. 2009: 130; Li et al. 2018: 14.
Diagnosis. Length: 4.20–4.45 mm; width: 3.70–4.08 mm. Form elongate oval, elytra distinctly narrowed towards apex in posterior half; dorsum strongly convex and glabrous (Fig. 32a–c). Head and pronotum black. Elytra ochreous yellow or reddish brown, lateral margins with black borders, almost twice as broad as those of C. circumdatus, about 2/10 th of elytral width. Abdominal postcoxal lines incomplete (Fig. 32d). Male genitalia (Fig. 32e–h) and spermatheca (Fig. 32i) as illustrated.
Life stages. Life stages (Fig. 33) as illustrated.
Distribution. India: Restricted to eastern Himalayan region (Sikkim; West Bengal) and parts of north-eastern region (Manipur). Myanmar. China. Laos. Vietnam.
Prey/associated habitat. Hemiptera: Diaspididae: Aonidiella aurantii (Maskell), Aonidiella orientalis (Newstead), and Chrysomphalus aonidum (Linnaeus) infesting mulberry, rose and citrus. Collected on tea (label data). Devi (1989) and Shantibala & Singh (1991) reported it as feeding on an aphid, Aphis odinae (van der Goot) [= Toxoptera odinae (van der Goot) infesting Wendlandia glabrata (Rubiaceae)], from an altitude of 150–500 m from Manipur and Nagaland in north-eastern India.
Seasonal occurrence. Collected during July and September-October in eastern India (label data).
Notes. More illustrations / details can be found in the following works: Nagaraja & Hussainy 1967; Ren et al. 2009.
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Weise
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Coccinellidae
- Genus
- Chilocorus
- Species
- hauseri
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- species
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- Chilocorus hauseri Weise, 1895 sec. POORANI, 2023
References
- Weise, J. (1895 a) Neue Coccinelliden sowie Bemerkungen zu bekannten Arten. Annales de la Societe Entomologique du Belgique, 39, 120 - 146.
- Sicard, A. (1913) Notes sur quelques Coccinellides de l'Inde et de Birmanie appartenant a la collection de M. Andrewes, de Londres et description d'especes et de varietes nouvelles. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 81, 495 - 506. [1912]
- Korschefsky, R. (1932) Coleopterorum Catalogus. Pars 120. Coccinellidae II. W. Junk, Berlin, 435 pp.
- Liu, C. L. (1963) Economic Entomology of China. Vol. 5. Coleoptera: Coccinellidae. Science Press, Beijing, 101 pp. [in Chinese]
- Nagaraja, H. & Hussainy, S. U. (1967) A study of six species of Chilocorus (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) predaceous on San Jose and other scale insects. Oriental Insects, 1, 249 - 256. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00305316.1967.10433865
- Pang, X. F. & Mao, J. L. (1979) Coleoptera: Coccinellidae, II. Khongguo Jingi Kunchang Zhi, 14, 1 - 170.
- Hoang, D. N. (1983) Coccinellidae of Vietnam. Part. 2. Nha zuat ban khoa hoc va ky thuat, Hanoi, 159 pp. [in Vietnamese with English summary]
- Cao, C. Y., Pan, Y. Z. & Wang, H. (1992) Coccinellidae of Yunnan. Yunnan Science & Technology Publishing House, Kunming, 242 pp. [in Chinese]
- Pang, H., Huang, B. & Pang, X. - F. (2002) Coleoptera: Coccinellidae. Fauna of Insects in Fujian Province of China. Vol. 6. Fujian Science Technology Publishing House, Fuzhou, Fujian, pp. 281 - 357.
- Pang, H., Ren, S. X., Zeng, T. & Pang, X. F. (2004) Biodiversity and their utilization of Coccinellidae in China. Science and Technology Press of Guangdong, Guangzhou, 168 pp. [in Chinese]
- Poorani, J. (2002) An annotated checklist of the Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) (excluding Epilachninae) of the Indian Subregion. Oriental Insects, 36, 307 - 383. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00305316.2002.10417335
- Kovar, I. (2007) Coccinellidae. In: Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 4. Elateroidea, Derodontoidea, Bostrichoidea, Lymexyloidea, Cleroidea, Cucujoidea. Apollo Books, Stentrup, pp. 71 - 74 + 568 - 630.
- 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]
- Li, W. J., Huo, L. Z., Wang, D., Ahrens, D. & Wang, X. M. (2018) Contribution to the genus Chilocorus Leach, 1815 (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Chilocorini), with descriptions of two new species from China. European Journal of Taxonomy, 469, 1 - 34. https: // doi. org / 10.5852 / ejt. 2018.469
- Devi, S. S. (1989) Studies on the taxonomy and biology of aphidophagous coccinellids (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of Manipur and Nagaland. Doctoral Thesis, Manipur University, Canchipur, 233 pp.
- 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.