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Phaenochilus renipunctus Chapin 1965

  • 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

8. Phaenochilus renipunctus Chapin 1965

Phaenochilus renipunctus Chapin 1965b: 151 (original description, dorsal habitus figured).

Type material: Holotype, female (MCZC) (digital images examined, MCZC Type Database @ Harvard Entomology 2010). Type locality: “Morotai I., Indonesia.”

Remarks: This is the only species of Phaenochilus with a dark reniform macula on the humeral callus of each elytron (Fig. 1). The male genitalia are unknown.

MAP 1. Distributions of Phaenochilus species.

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 252

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MCZC
Family
Coccinellidae
Genus
Phaenochilus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Chapin
Species
renipunctus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Phaenochilus renipunctus Chapin, 1965 sec. Giorgi & Vandenberg, 2012

References

  • Chapin, E. A. (1965 b) The genera of the Chilocorini (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 133 (4), 227 - 271.