Novius lindi Blackburn, 1889

Pang, Hong, Tang, Xue-Fei, Booth, Roger G., Vandenberg, Natalia, Forrester, Juanita, Mchugh, Joseph & Ślipiński, Adam, 2020, Revision Of The Australian Coccinellidae (Coleoptera). Genus Novius Mulsant Of Tribe Noviini, Annales Zoologici 70 (1), pp. 1-24 : 11-12

Novius lindi Blackburn

( Figs 25–29 , 60–63 , 81, 82 , 122–126 )

Novius lindi Blackburn, 1889b: 188 . TL: South Australia, Port Lincoln.

Rodolia lindi: Ślipiński, 2007: 143 .

Diagnosis. Novius lindi is very similar to N. bellus but can be distinguished by having parallel sided, not apically expanded, parameres that are distinctly shorter than the penis guide, and the penis with a simple, sharp apex ( Figs 25–28 ). The eyes are also more broadly separated in R. lindi than in R. bella ( Figs 81, 82 ).

Description. Length 2.5 – 3.0 mm. Body elongateoval, widest shortly behind elytral humeri, 1.2–1.4 times longer than wide. Color pattern variable. Head black; pronotum uniformly dark or with anterior part yellowish. Elytra of typical form black with yellowish lateral margins, and two pale spots, one central and second apical on each elytron. Melanic forms have elytra with variable amounts of black coloration, ranging to completely black ( Figs 60–63 ). Interocular distance in frontal view 2.8–3.1 times eye width ( Figs 81, 82 ). Male genitalia ( Figs 25–28 ): parameres slender, parallel sided, not expanded apically; penis guide distinctly longer than parameres, apically pointed. Penis apically simple with sharp apical point. Female genitalia as in Figs 92, 93 .

Type material. Lectotype male (here designated), BMNH. “Type / Australia; Blackburn Coll.; B. M. 1910 - 236. / Novius lindi, Blackb / T 1089 .”

Other specimens examined. Australian Capital Territory: CSIRO, Canberra, 15-18.xii.1980, Acacia species, R.D. Pope, B.M. 1981-447 (8, BMNH); Deakin, Canberra, 22-23.xi.1980, Acacia species, Clea species, R.D. Pope, B.M. 1981-447 (1, BMNH); CSIRO, Canberra, 23.xii.1980, Acacia species, R.D. Pope, B.M. 1981-447 (3, BMNH). New South Wales: Cabramatta, Georges R. Valley, 7.i.1962. On flowers Bursaria spinosa , (1, ANIC). Western Australia: Yalgurup NP, 22.iii. 1981, R.D. Pope, Jacksonia species, R.D. Pope, B.M. 1981-447 (1, BMNH). Queensland: Brisbane, 28.viii- 24.xi.1998, V. Brancatini, O. Fahey (37, BMNH).

Distribution. Australian Capital Territory, New

South Wales, Western Australia, Queensland ( Fig. 29 ).

Figures

Figures 25–29. Novius lindi Blackburn: (25) penis; (26) apical sclerite of penis; (27) tegmen inner; (28) tegmen lateral; (29) distribution in Australia.

Figures 39–68. Australian Novius species, dorsal view: (39–44) N. bellus; (45) N. bellus, lectotype; (46) N. cardinalis; (47) Vedalia cardinalis, type; (48–51) N. koebelei; (52–55) N. limbatus; (56) N. limbatus, lectotype; (57) N. simplicipennis, lectotype; (58) N. discoidalis, lectotype; (59) N. tripustulus, lectotype; (60–61) N. lindi; (63) N. lindi, lectotype; (64) N. ruber, lectotype; (65–67) N. sanguinolentus; (68) N. sanguinolentus, holotype.

Figures 69–87. Australian Novius species, anterior view: (69–71) N. bellus; (72–75) N. cardinalis; (76–80) N. koebelei; (81, 82) N. lindi; (83) N. koebelei; (84–87) N. sanguinolentus.

Figures 122–136. Australian Novius species, male genitalia: (122–126) N. lindi; (128–136) N. sanguinolentus.

Figures 88–99. Australian Novius species, (88–91) postcoxal line, (92–99) female genitalia: (88) N. bellus; (89) N. cardinalis; (90) N. koebelei; (91) N. saguinolentus; (92, 93) N. bellus; (94, 95) N. cardinalis; (96–99) N. koebelei.