Plotina Lewis 1896
Authors/Creators
- 1. Buzulucká 1105, 50003 Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
- 2. Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Twarda 51 / 55, 00 - 818 Warszawa, Poland
Description
Genus Plotina Lewis
Plotina Lewis, 1896: 35.– Miyatake 1969: 198; Sasaji 1971: 65; Miyatake 1994: 281; Wang et al. 2011: 57.
Type species: Plotina versicolor Lewis, 1896, by monotypy.
Diagnosis. Form broad to elongate oval, dorsum moderately convex and glabrous. Antenna relatively long, stout, 10-segmented. Eyes small and rather coarsely faceted. Maxillary palp large, terminal palpomere elongate, gradually broadening apically. Lateral margin of elytra not expanded externally. Prosternum T-shaped with arcuate carinae on intercoxal process which is relatively narrow with broad lateral wings. Elytral epipleuron narrow and not reaching the elytral apex; surface nearly horizontal and flat without a distinct fovea. Abdominal postcoxal lines complete (from Wang et al. 2011).
Distribution. China, Japan, India (Meghalaya).
Included species. Seven species of Plotina are currently known. Wang et al. (2011) reviewed the Chinese species of Plotina. The genus is newly recorded from India, with the addition of two species, Plotina muelleri Mader, 1955a, and Plotina octomaculata Wang & Ren, 2011 (both from Meghalaya, northeastern region).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Lewis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Coccinellidae
- Genus
- Plotina
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Plotina Lewis, 1896 sec. Poorani, Větrovec & Szawaryn, 2025
References
- Lewis, G. (1896) On the Coccinellidae of Japan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 6, 17 (97), 22-41. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939608680319
- Miyatake, M. (1969) The genus Plotina and related genera (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae). Pacific Insects, 11 (2), 197-216.
- Sasaji, H. (1971) Fauna Japonica. Coccinellidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). Academic Press Japan, Tokyo, 345 pp.
- Wang, X., Ren, S. & Chen, X. (2011) The genus Plotina Lewis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), with descriptions of four new species from China. Zootaxa, 2801 (1), 57-68. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2801.1.4
- Mader, L. (1955 a) Neue Coleopteren aus Fukien (China). Helotidae, Languriidae, Erotylidae, Endomychidae, Coccinellidae. Koleopterologische Rundschau, 33, 62-78.