Sticholotis morimotoi Kamiya

Xingmin Wang, Hermes E. Escalona, Shunxiang Ren & Chen Xiaosheng, 2017, Taxonomic review of the ladybird genus Sticholotis from China (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), Zootaxa 4326 (1), pp. 1-72 : 15

Sticholotis morimotoi Kamiya

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Sticholotis morimotoi Kamiya, 1965: 110 ; Sasaji 1967: 14; 1971: 74.

Diagnosis. This species is similar to S. formosana , but it can be distinguished from the latter by the relatively small body size, black pronotum and anterior elytral spots nearly rounded. In S. formosana , the pronotum and lateral margins of elytra are reddish and anterior elytral spots are distinctly transverse ( Kamiya 1965; Sasaji 1971).

Specimens examined. None.

Distribution. China: Taiwan; Japan.

Remarks. This species was described from Ryukyus Island and the type specimens are deposited in the collection of the Entomological Laboratory, Kyushu University, Japan.

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FIGURE 304. Distribution map. S. confucii (Mulsant, 1850) (▲); S. morimotoi Kamiya, 1965 (■); S. klapperichi Mader, 1955 (●); S. maculata Korschefsky, 1944 (); S. linguiformis Yu, 1995 (); S. undecimpuncata Miyatake, 1982 (□).