Platynaspis lewisii Crotch 1874
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Platynaspis lewisii Crotch
(Fig. 4a, b)
Platynaspis lewisii Crotch, 1874: 198.— Korschefsky 1932; Mader 1955: 813.
Phymatosternus lewisi: Miyatake 1961: 168.— Sasaji 1971: 218–219; Poorani 2002: 314.
Description. Length: 3.00– 3.50 mm; width: 2.50–3.00 mm. Form (Fig. 4a, b) almost hemispherical, dorsum strongly convex and pubescent. Ground colour reddish brown, head yellowish in male, piceous to black in female. Pronotum piceous black with an obtriangular spot on the lateral side. Scutellar shield black. Elytra reddish brown, margins more or less black, each elytron with two spots, one placed posterior to humeral callus and transverse, the other one larger, distinctly longer than wide; sutural band starting below scutellar shield, gradually wider up to the basal fourth, then narrowed towards apex, marginal bands broadened around middle. Underside largely black except abdomen reddish brown. Genitalia not studied.
Materialexamined. NE Laos, Hua Phan Prov., Ban Saleui, Phou Pan (Mt.), N20°12’ E104°01’, 1300-1900m, 11.iv.-15.v.2012 / BMNH {E}, 2012-14, C. Holzschuh, several specimens (BMNH).
Distribution. Japan. China. Taiwan. Myanmar. India.
Note. More colour variants were described by Miyatake (1961) with illustrations of the genitalia. Specimens examined in the collections of BMNH are illustrated here (Fig. 4a, b).
Prey/associatedhabitat. Kaneko (2007) recorded Platynaspis lewisii as feeding on ants tending brown citrus aphids.
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- Collection code
- BMNH
- Event date
- 2012-04-11
- Verbatim event date
- 2012-04-11/05-15
- Scientific name authorship
- Crotch
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Coccinellidae
- Genus
- Platynaspis
- Species
- lewisii
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Platynaspis lewisii Crotch, 1874 sec. Poorani, 2023
References
- Crotch, G. R. (1874) A revision of the coleopterous family Coccinellidae, E. W. Janson, London, 311 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 8975
- Korschefsky, R. (1932) Coleopterorum Catalogus. Pars 120. Coccinellidae II. W. Junk, Berlin, 435 pp.
- Mader, L. (1955) Evidenz der palaarktischen Coccinelliden und ihrer Aberrationen in Wort und Bild. 2. Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey Tutzing bei Muenchen, 6, 765 - 1035.
- Miyatake, M. (1961) The East-Asian Coccinellid beetles preserved in the California Academy of Science, tribe Platynaspini. Memoirs of the Ehime University, Series 6, 6, 67 - 86.
- Sasaji, H. (1971) Fauna Japonica: Coccinellidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). Academic Press of Japan, Tokyo, 340 pp.
- Poorani, J. (2002) An annotated checklist of the Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) (excluding Epilachninae) of the Indian subregion. Oriental Insects, 36, 307 - 383. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00305316.2002.10417335
- Kaneko, S. (2007) Larvae of two ladybirds, Phymatosternus lewisii and Scymnus posticalis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), exploiting colonies of the brown aphid Toxoptera citricidus (Homoptera: Aphidiidae) attended by the ant Pristomyrmex pungens (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Applied Entomology and Zoology, 42, 181 - 187. https: // doi. org / 10.1303 / aez. 2007.181