Nothocolus, Gordon, 1994

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 : 516

Nothocolus sp. ( Fig 4l )

Examined material: 1 ex. (female) “110 [?] Chile, Los Lagos Reg., Chiloé, Chinquén, [S] 42°37.069/W 74°05.951, 60msl, 4.03.200 8, 22°C Fogging, 150cc / Nothofagus nitida — A. luma , 15.05pm, Arias et al. UC. Berkeley” “ Nothocolus sp. 1 det G. Arriagada 2008” ( MNHN) .

Original reference: Not available.

Comments: The specimen has been assigned to the genus Nothocolus Gordon , based on the convex body, the dorsal pilosity of a single type, the head exposed anterior to eye, the antenna with 11 antennomeres, with compact club, extended near the posterior pronotal angle without reaching it, the abdominal postcoxal lines complete and recurved extending to mid-length of the first ventrite, the prosternal process not carinated, and the tarsal claw with sub-squared basal tooth. Among the species of the genus, it only bears a distant resemblance to Nothocolus indefinitus Gordon , from which it differs by its smaller size, the presence of five dark spots on the pronotum, the absence of designs on the elytra, and the shape slightly more wide, with elytra wider than the pronotum at the base. It corresponds to undescribed species known only from a female specimen. Endemic for the island.

Figures

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.