Palaeoneda auriculata
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Palaeoneda auriculata (Mulsant)
(Fig. 162)
Coccinella miniata Hope, 1831: 30 (preoccupied) (Lectotype female, BMNH; Type locality: Nepal).—Crotch 1871: 5; 1874: 32; Booth & Pope 1989: 359.
Neda miniata: Mulsant 1850: 276; 1866: 196.
Palaeoneda miniata: Crotch 1874: 178; Korschefsky 1932: 279; Ren et al. 2009: 224; Yu 2010: 135–136.
Neda auriculata Mulsant, 1866: 195 (Lectotype, UCCC; Type locality: “les Indes-Orientales”).
Palaeoneda auriculata: Crotch 1871: 5; 1874: 32; Booth & Pope 1989: 359; Poorani 2002a: 338.
Palaeoneda miniata ab. auriculata: Crotch 1874: 178; Korschefsky 1932: 279.
Diagnosis. Length: 11.90–13.50 mm; width: 10.50–12.50 mm. Form large, subrounded, dorsum strongly convex and glarous. Head black. Pronotum with a large, median subtrapezoidal, medially slightly narrowed black marking narrowly extending to the posterolateral corners, sides and anterior margin yellowish. Elytra yellowish brown or ochreous or orange or reddish testaceous with a narrow black sutural stripe, basal margin narrowly black.Abdominal postcoxal line (Fig. 162c) incomplete, with an oblique lateral line. Male genitalia (Fig. 162e–g) and spermatheca (Fig. 162d) as illustrated.
Distribution. India (Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal); Nepal; Bhutan; Pakistan.
Prey/associated habitat. Hemiptera: Adelgidae: Adelges sp. on silver fir; associated with adelgids on spruce, Quercus incana, Q. dilatata, and Salix sp. (label data). Collected on walnut and berseem in Pakistan (Hayat et al. 2017).
Seasonal occurrence. Collected during April–June, November (label data). May–June (Hayat et al. 2017).
Notes. Palaeoneda auriculata is a distinctive genus and species of large size, but not commonly collected. Treated by Mader (1934), Ren et al. (2009) and Yu (2010).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- UCCC
- Family
- Coccinellidae
- Genus
- Palaeoneda
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Mulsant
- Species
- auriculata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- lectotype
References
- Hope, F. W. (1831) s. n. In: Gray, J. E., Synopsis of the new species of Nepaul insects in the collection of Major General Hardwicke. The Zoological Miscellany, London, pp. 21 - 32.
- Pope, R. D. (1989) A revision of the Australian Coccinellidae (Coleoptera). Part I. Subfamily Coccinellinae. Invertebrate Taxonomy, 3, 633 - 735. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / IT 9880633
- Mulsant, E. (1850) Species des Coleopteres Trimeres Securipalpes. Annales des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles, d'Agriculture et d'Industrie, publiees par la Societe nationale d'Agriculture, etc., de Lyon, Deuxieme Serie, 2, 1 - 1104. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 8953
- Mulsant, E. (1866) Monographie des Coccinellides. 1 re Partie Coccinelliens. Savy et Deyrolle, Paris, 294 pp.
- Korschefsky, R. (1932) Coleopterorum Catalogus. Pars 120. Coccinellidae II. W. Junk, Berlin, 435 pp.
- Ren, S. X., Wang, X. M., Pang, H., Peng, Z. Q. & Zeng, T. (2009) Colored pictorial handbook of ladybird beetles in China. Science Press, Beijing, 336 pp. [in Chinese]
- Yu, G. (2010) Chinese Lady Beetles (The Subfamily Coccinellinae). China Scientific Press, Beijing, 180 pp. [in Chinese]
- Poorani, J. (2002 a) An annotated checklist of the Coccinellidae (excluding Epilachninae) of the Indian subregion. Oriental Insects, 36, 307 - 383. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00305316.2002.10417335
- Hayat, A., Khan, M. R. & Naz, F. (2017) Subfamilies Coccinellinae and Coccidullinae (Coccinellidae: Coleoptera) with New Records from AJK, Pakistan. Journal of Applied Environmental and Biological Sciences, 7 (4), 12 - 66.