Coccinella magnopunctata Rybakow

POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, Zootaxa 5332 (1), pp. 1-307 : 81-82

Coccinella magnopunctata Rybakow

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Coccinella undecimpunctata var. magnopunctata Rybakow, 1889: 290 (Type locality: Central Asia : “ Dy-Tschu ”); Weise 1889: 573.

Coccinella semenowi Weise, 1889: 651 ; Jacobson 1915: 982.

Coccinella magnopunctata: Dobzhansky 1926: 22 ; Korschefsky 1932: 469; Kapur 1963: 33; Poorani 2002a: 326; Kovář 2005: 143; Ren et al. 2009: 188.

Coccinella magnoguttata Mader, 1930 in Mader 1926 – 1937: 152 (misspelling).

Coccinella (s. str.) magnopunctata: Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1979: 67 ; 1982: 363.

Diagnosis. Length: 5.50–7.00 mm. Body oval, dorsum moderately convex and glabrous ( Fig. 52 ). Head black, eye canthus and two large trapezoidal frontal spots yellow-white, isolated, rarely touching orbits or narrowly interconnected by canthus. Pronotum black, anterolateral corners with small narrowly triangular, more or less broken ochraceous-white spots, both narrowly interconnected at anterior margin. Scutellar shield black. Elytra orange-red with 11 black spots, one scutellar, the rest arranged in a 1-1-1-2 pattern as illustrated, scutellar spot large, somewhat inverted heart-shaped. Underside black, propleura with small crescent-shaped, pale ochraceous spot at anterior corners, elytral epipleura red-orange, mesepimeron white-yellow, metepimeron partly brown. Legs black, anterior face of fore coxae with large pale ochraceous spot in male (Modified from Kovář 2005).

Distribution. Northwestern India (Kashmir); Nepal; China; Tibet; Mongolia; Russia; Iran ( Kovář 2005).

Notes: For detailed redescription and genitalia illustrations, see Kovář (2005). Also illustrated by Ren et al. (2009).

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FIGURE 52. Coccinella magnopunctata Rybakow-habitus.