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Phaenochilus kashaya Giorgi & Vandenberg 2012, new species

  • 1. Laboratório de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Pará Altamira, Pará 68372 - 040, Brazil.
  • 2. Systematic Entomology Lab (SEL), Plant Sciences Institute, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, c / o National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, P. O. Box 37012, MRC- 168, Washington, DC 20013 - 7012, USA.

Description

3. Phaenochilus kashaya Giorgi & Vandenberg, new species

Phaenochilus kashaya Giorgi & Vandenberg, current article (original description; adult habitus, morphological details, and male genitalia figured).

Phaenochilus punctifrons: Chunram & Sasaji 1980: 481 (provisional ID in a checklist of the Coccinellidae of Thailand) (misidentification); Chunram 2002: 112 (habitus photo) (misidentification), not Weise 1895.

Type material: Holotype, male (USNM); paratypes (14 total), 8 males, 6 females (2, USNM; 2, AMNH; 2, CASC; 2, TDOA; 2, ECMP; 2, EUCJ; 2, IOZB). Type locality: THAILAND: Nakhon, Ratchasima, Sub Tao, N 14°29.45’ E 101°58.60’

Remarks: The broad oval parameres of the male genitalia (Fig. 13) will distinguish this species from congeneric species with a similar yellow to reddish orange or ferrugineus coloration. Phaenochilus kashaya further differs from P. metasternalis in possessing narrow, weakly explanate elytral margins (Figs 5, 27, 32–34), and from P. punctifrons in possessing a more expansive pronotum with the anterior pronotal margins on each side of the emargination subtruncate (Figs 28, 31).

Chunram and Sasaji (1980) tentatively assigned a specimen from Chiang Mai Province to P. punctifrons, and subsequently published a photographic image of a specimen from the same locality in a book on the lady beetles of Thailand (Chunram 2002), but we believe these records to be a misidentification of P. kashaya.

Notes

Published as part of Giorgi, José Adriano & Vandenberg, Natalia J., 2012, Review of the lady beetle genus Phaenochilus Weise (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Chilocorini) with description of a new species from Thailand that preys on cycad aulacaspis scale, Aulacaspis yasumatsui Takagi (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha:, pp. 239-255 in Zootaxa 3478 on page 248

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
USNM, AMNH, CASC, TDOA, ECMP, EUCJ, IOZB
Scientific name authorship
Giorgi & Vandenberg
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Coccinellidae
Genus
Phaenochilus
Species
kashaya
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Phaenochilus kashaya Giorgi & Vandenberg, 2012

References

  • Chunram, S. & Sasaji, H. (1980) A contribution to the Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of Thailand. Oriental Insects, 14 (4), 473 - 491.
  • Chunram, S. (2002) Lady beetles in Thailand. Division of Entomology and Zoology. Department of Agriculture Science, 209 pp. (in Thai).
  • Weise, J. (1895) Neue Coccinelliden sowie Bemerkungen zu bekannten Arten. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, 39, 120 - 146 (in German).