Eoadalia Iablokoff-Khnzorian

Genus Eoadalia Iablokoff-Khnzorian

Eoadalia Iablokoff-Khnzorian, 1976: 253.

Type species: Adalia koltzei Weise, 1887, by original designation.

Diagnosis. In the key given by Iablokoff-Khnzorian (1979), it is distinguished from other Coccinellini by its “elongate oval and narrow form, presence of tibial spurs and female genitalia with infundibulum long and tubular with a basal ring, spermatheca as in Adalia ”. A proper diagnostic account of this genus is not given because of the paucity of material for detailed study and a generic definition is not given by any other workers except Iablokoff-Khnzorian (1979; 1982).

Distribution. Palaearctic.

Included species. Only Eoadalia juliae (Mulsant, 1866) is present in India and this species is of uncertain generic status.

Notes: The name Eoadalia was first mentioned as a new genus by Iablokoff-Khnzorian (1976) and later he included it in his key to the genera of Palaearctic Coccinellini (Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1979) and mentioned Adalia koltzei (Weise 1887) as its type. He formally erected Eoadalia as a new genus again and designated A. koltzei as its type in his revision of Coccinellini (Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1982). Besides the type species, two Indian species, Eoadalia indica (Crotch, 1874) and E. juliae (Mulsant, 1866) were initially included in this genus. Of these, E. indica was listed as a synonym of O. billieti by Poorani (2002). Tomaszewska et al. (2021) included Eoadalia under the Synonycha- group of genera and this genus was not included in their molecular analysis.