Hippodamia variegata (Goeze, 1777)

Gonzalez, Guillermo, Cotoras, Darko D. & Grez, Audrey A., 2020, Annotated list of island lady beetles from Chile (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), Zootaxa 4852 (5), pp. 501-526 : 509

Hippodamia variegata (Goeze, 1777) ( Fig 4b ).

Examined material: 1 ex. (male) “ Rapa Nui, 2018 , leg. Darko D. Cotoras ”, “macho 1949”, “ Hippodamia variegata , det. G. González, 2019 ” ( MNHN) ; 1 ex. (female), same collection data, except by “female1949” ( MNHN) ; 6 exx. “ Rapa Nui, 2018 , leg. Darko D. Cotoras ” ( CPDC) .

Original reference: Desender & Baert (1996): “ Hippodamia variegata Goeze, Easter Island, [Nr.59], 40m, 30 November–20 December 1996, Residential Gomero, culture zone, garden with open grassland (60% cover)”.

Comments: Species of Palearctic origin, currently present in most continents, including South America. In Chile, it is distributed between the provinces of Arica and Cautín (González 2006). Two of the collected specimens from Rapa Nui had laboulbenial fungi (Fungi: Ascomycota), been this the first record of them on a Coccinellidae species from Chile.

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FIGURE 4. Island Coccinellidae from Chile, Coccinellini part II and Coccidulini. a: Hippodamia convergens; b: H. variegata; c: Olla v-nigrum; d: Cranoryssus variegatus; e: Paracranoryssus chilianus; f: Orynipus chilensis; g: O. darwini; h: O. kuscheli; i: O. ultimensis; j: Eupaleoides Chiloénsis; k: Nothocolus sicardi; l: Nothocolus sp.; m: Rhyzobius lophantae; n: Rhyzobius sp.; o: Stenadalia nigrodorsata.