Coccinella marussii Kapur 1973
Authors/Creators
- 1. The Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Conservation and Ecological Security in the Yangtze River Basin, College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, 241000 Anhui, China
- 2. Department of Entomology, The University of Haripur, Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
- 3. The Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Conservation and Ecological Security in the Yangtze River Basin, College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui, 241000, China
- 4. Institute of Entomology, The Provincial Special Key Laboratory for Development and Utilization of Insect Resources, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China
- 5. College of Food Science and Technology, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450001, China
- 6. Department of Entomology, Faculty of Crop and Food Sciences, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
- 7. Department of Zoology, Faculty of Natural and Health Sciences, University of Baltistan, Skardu, Pakistan
- 8. Museum and Institute of Zoology Polish Academy of Science, Twarda 51 / 55, 00 - 818 Warsaw, Poland
- 9. ‡ The Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Conservation and Ecological Security in the Yangtze River Basin, College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, 241000 Anhui, China
Description
Coccinella marussii Kapur, 1973
Coccinella marussii Kapur, 1973: 374; Poorani (2002): 326; Kovář (2005): 132; Poorani (2023): 82.
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 7; sex: 3 males, 4 females; occurrenceID: 39E28467-F793-5EEB-AB98-AA1015BA1340; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella marussii; order: Coleoptera; family: Coccinellidae; scientificNameAuthorship: Kapur, 1973; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Gilgit-Baltistan; locality: Ghizer, Phandar (Langhar); verbatimElevation: 3551 m; decimalLatitude: 36.04033; decimalLongitude: 72.63111; Event: year: 2017; month: 6; day: 30; Record Level: institutionCode: PMAS-AAUR
Description
Body (Fig. 3 A) oval and slightly convex, dorsally glabrous; head almost black with triangular pale-yellow spots on each side of frons close to eyes, but not touching eye margin; mouthparts and antennae black or dark-brown; pronotum black with pale yellow quadrangular marking at anterior corners; scutellar shield black; each elytron in nominative form yellow-orange, with five black spots on each elytron, in examined specimens, three antero-lateral spots (humeral, lateral, middle) merged, forming L-shape in anterior portion of elytron; apical spot large sub-oval; scutellar macula large, subcordate; elytral suture with the broad black band; ventral side and legs black, except prothoracic hypomeron pale yellow; elytral epipleura yellow-orange; abdominal postcoxal lines (Fig. 3 B) laterally incomplete, descending and expanding to posterior margin of ventrite 1, with oblique dividing line distinct, touching or close to the apex of postcoxal line. Male genitalia can be seen in Fig. 3 C-F.
Measurements
TL: 5.23–5.64 mm; TW: 3.89–4.09 mm; HW: 1.35–1.43 mm; TH: 1.95–2.34 mm; EL / TW: 1.05; TL / TW: 1.35–1.38; PL / PW: 0.54–0.57.
Diagnosis
This species is similar to C. luteopicta and C. transversalis in external appearance, but it can be distinguished by the apex of the penis guide with a small hastate in the inner view (Fig. 3 E) and tongue-shaped apex in the lateral view (Fig. 3 F).
Distribution
Pakistan: Gilgit-Baltistan (Kovář 2005, current study); – India (Kashmir) (Kapur 1973, Kovář 2005), Turkey (Fürsch 1981).
Ecology
Prey. In the present study, C. marussii predates on Macrosiphum sp. (Hemiptera, Aphididae).
Associated Plants. This species was collected from Rosa webbiana Wallich ex Royle (Rosales) and Ribes sp. (Saxifragales, Grossulariaceae) (current study).
Notes
This is a rare species in the family Coccinellidae with limited distribution (Kapur 1973, Kovář 2005). See Kovář (2005) for a detailed description and illustration. Poorani (2023) also described and illustrated it from India.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- PMAS-AAUR
- Event date
- 2017-06-30
- Verbatim event date
- 2017-06-30
- Scientific name authorship
- Kapur
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Coccinellidae
- Genus
- Coccinella
- Species
- marussii
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- Other material
- Taxonomic concept label
- Coccinella marussii Kapur, 1973 sec. Iqbal, Azad, Jin, Hassan, Abbas, Nasir, Bodlah, Ali, Szawaryn & Nie, 2024
References
- Kapur A. P. 1973 The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of the Italian expedition to Karakoram and Hindu Kush Records of the Zoological Survey of India 67 373 378
- Poorani J. 2002 An annotated checklist of the Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) (excluding Epilachninae) of the Indian Subregion Oriental Insects 36 1 307 383 10.1080/00305316.2002.10417335
- Kovář I. 2005 Revision of the Palaearctic species of the Coccinella transversoguttutta species group with notes on some other species of the genus (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 45 129 164
- Poorani J. 2023 An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini Zootaxa 5332 1 1 307 http://zoobank.org/424f7439-4095-46a5-93e3-c4130e3b6d9a
- Fürsch H. 1981 Coccinella marussii Kapur, eine neue Art in der Turkei (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) Nachrichtenblatt der Bayerischen Entomologen 30 5 81 84