Sasajiscymnus Vandenberg 2004

Genus Sasajiscymnus Vandenberg, 2004

(Fig. 1 a–e)

Pseudoscymnus Chapin, 1962: 50 (preoccupied in Pisces). Type species: Scymnus hareja Weise, 1879, by original designation. Sasajiscymnus Vandenberg, 2004: 483.

Diagnosis: Sasajiscymnus can be separated from other genera of the tribe Coccidulini using the following combination of characters. Body elongate oval, moderately convex, dorsum densely covered with pubescence. Head with large eyes (Fig. 1a). Antenna (Fig. 1c) short and composed of 9 or 10 antennomeres, scape stout and as long as wide, pedicel stout, shorter than scape, antennomeres 3–9 forming a fusiform club with two long apical setae. Mandible apically bidentate, molar tooth well developed (Fig. 1d). Maxillary palp with four palpomeres, of nearly equal width, terminal palpomere longer than wide with sides sub-parallel, obliquely truncate at apex (Fig. 1e). Labrum twice as wide as long. Labial palp with 3 palpomeres, anterior margin of sub-mentum straight or emarginate. Elytral epipleuron incomplete, gradually narrowing toward apex, and terminated at level of hind coxa. Prosternal process broad, rectangular with distinct lateral carinae (Fig. 1b). Tarsi with 3 tarsomeres, tarsal claw with large basal tooth (Fig. 1f). Abdomen with six ventrites, abdominal postcoxal line incomplete (Fig. 2b) (modified from Ghorpade 1977).