Papuaepilachna bivakana (Bielawski)

Szawaryn, Karol & Tomaszewska, Wioletta, 2013, Two new genera of Epilachnini Mulsant from New Guinea and Aru Islands (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) 47 (37 - 38), pp. 2427-2457 : 2438-2440

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222933.2012.763067

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scientific name

Papuaepilachna bivakana (Bielawski)
status

 

Papuaepilachna bivakana (Bielawski)

( Figures 3A–J View Figure 3 , 4A–E View Figure 4 , 15G View Figure 15 )

Afidentula bivakana Bielawski, 1965: 50 .

Material

Paratype. New Guinea, Indonesia: “Museum Leiden Nieuw Guinea Exp. K.N.A.G. 1939 Araboebivak 14 October 1939 / Afidentula bivakana det. R. Bielawski 1964 / Paratypus ” (1 female: MIZ) .

Diagnosis

This species is most similar to P. wiebesi because of dorsal body colouration but P. bivakana can be easily separated from P. wiebesi by elongate oval body (distinctly heart-shaped in P. wiebesi ), antennomere 5 subquadrate, more transverse mentum and the prosternal process with sides parallel.

Description

Length 8.3 mm; TL / EW = 1.26; PL / PW = 0.44; EL / EW = 1.14; EW / PW = 1.81.

Body ( Figures 3G View Figure 3 , 15G View Figure 15 ) elongate-oval, convex; surfaces covered with short white, appressed setae. Mouthparts yellow with last two maxillary palpomeres brown. Antennomeres 1–7 yellow, antennomeres 8–11 dark brown to black. Head black with yellow triangular fronto-clypeal macula. Pronotum along middle black, lateral parts yellow; hypomera yellow, prosternum black; dorsal surfaces and legs black.

Antenna ( Figure 3A View Figure 3 ) with antennomere 4 elongate, longer than antennomere 5; antenomeres 5 and 6 subquadrate; antennomere 7 and 8 transverse; antennomere 8 widened anteriorly. Mandibles ( Figure 3E, F View Figure 3 ) with two apical and first subapical teeth large, sharp, triangular in shape with numerous denticles on inner margin; second subapical tooth large, sharp without denticles; additional serration below teeth. Labrum feebly emarginate ( Figure 3H View Figure 3 ). Labium ( Figure 3B View Figure 3 ) with palpomere 1 transverse, about half length of palpomere 2, which is scarcely longer than wide; apical palpomere about 1.2 times longer than palpomere 2. Maxillary terminal palpomere ( Figure 3C View Figure 3 ) about 1.15 times longer than wide.

Prosternal process ( Figure 3D, I View Figure 3 ) subtruncate at apex with sides parallel; width of prosternal process about 1.3 times greater than length of prosternum in front of procoxae. Mesoventral process ( Figure 3J View Figure 3 ) about as wide as coxal diameter at the same position.

Legs with hind femora protruding from outer margin of elytral epipleuron ( Figure 3G View Figure 3 ).

Abdominal postcoxal lines somewhat angulately curved ( Figure 4A View Figure 4 ); apical margin of female ventrite 5 truncate ( Figure 4A View Figure 4 ), sternite VIII weakly emarginate and tergite VIII rounded ( Figure 4D, E View Figure 4 ).

Male terminalia and genitalia not studied (see Bielawski 1965: 51).

Female genitalia as in Figure 4B, C View Figure 4 with transverse, almond-like coxites.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Coccinellidae

Genus

Papuaepilachna

Loc

Papuaepilachna bivakana (Bielawski)

Szawaryn, Karol & Tomaszewska, Wioletta 2013
2013
Loc

Afidentula bivakana

Bielawski R 1965: 50
1965
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