Cryptogonus bimaculatus Kapur
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Cryptogonus bimaculatus Kapur, 1948: 100.— Poorani 2002: 344; Kovář, 2007: 575; Ren et al. 2009: 110, 111; Dorji et al. 2019: 502.
Diagnosis. Form short oval to slightly more elongate oval, dorsum convex and densely pubescent. Head yellow in male, blackish in female, pronotum with a large black macula except anterolateral corners and anterior margin yellowish (Figs 14a–c, 15a), pronotal macula occasionally reduced to a transverse black band on posterior margin (Fig. 15b); scutellar shield dark pitchy brown to black; elytra ochreous yellow to yellowish brown, with an elongate oval black median spot on each elytron, closer to elytral suture than to lateral margins (Figs 14a, b, 15a, 16a, b); occasionally elytra without spots (Fig. 15b). Ventral side dark testaceous brown to dark pitchy brown to black except pronotal hypomera, elytral epipleura and legs lighter yellowish brown. Abdominal postcoxal line incomplete (Fig. 15c). Male genitalia (Fig. 15d–f, 16c, d), female genitalia (Fig. 15g) and spermatheca (Fig. 15h) as illustrated.
Type material examined. Holotype male, “ Type (Red bordered circular label)/ Doherty / Assam Patkai Mts / Fry Coll. 1905-100/ Cryptogonus bimaculatus n.sp. (TYPE), A.P. Kapur, 1947” (BMNH); 3 Paratypes with yellow bordered circular labels, same data as holotype (BMNH); “ Paratype (yellow bordered circular label)/ Burma: Mishmi Hills 1935, M. Steele /Brit. Mus. 1935-312/ Cryptogonus bimaculatus n. sp. (Paratype), A.P. Kapur, 1947/Doherty” (BMNH: 1); “Assam, 85.18/ Cryptogonus bimaculatus Kapur, n.sp. (Paratype), A.P. Kapur, 1947” (BMNH: 1).
Distribution. India: Northeastern region (Assam; Arunachal Pradesh; Manipur; Meghalaya; Mizoram; Nagaland; Sikkim; Tripura); Bhutan; China; Myanmar; Nepal; Thailand.
Prey / Associated habitat. It is a common species of Cryptogonus in the northeastern region of India. Distributed at an altitude of 500–2000m in the northeastern region of India (Shantibala & Singh 1991). Feeds on Aphis (Toxoptera) citricidus (Kirkaldy)) on citrus and Hyalopterus pruni on almond and peach; collected on tea, citrus and pigeon pea (label data).
Notes. See Kapur (1948) for detailed description; also illustrated by Ren et al. (2009).
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- Collection code
- TYPE, BMNH
- Scientific name authorship
- Kapur
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Coccinellidae
- Genus
- Cryptogonus
- Species
- bimaculatus
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- species
- Type status
- holotype
References
- 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
- Poorani, J. (2002) 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
- Kovar, I. (2007) Family Coccinellidae Latreille, 1807. In: Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 4. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, pp. 568 - 631.
- 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]
- Dorji, C., Loday, P. & Vorst, O. (2019) A preliminary checklist of the Coccinellidae of Bhutan (Insecta: Coleoptera). Zootaxa, 4712 (4), 497 - 530. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4712.4.2
- 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.