Noviini Mulsant, 1846

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 : 3-4

Noviini Mulsant, 1846

Nomiaires Mulsant, 1846: 213. Type genus Nomius Mulsant, 1846 . Invalid name based on junior homonym.

Noviaires Mulsant, 1846: addenda et errata [p. 4]. Type genus: Novius Mulsant, 1846 . Bouchard et al., 2011: 379.

Diagnosis. Adult. Body oval or elongate-oval, dorsum densely hairy. Head broad, with eyes large, densely setose, and broadly separated on vertex. Antenna with 8 antennomeres, distinctly shorter than head capsule, with scape enlarged; antennal club with 3 antennomeres, but divisions often indistinct. Terminal maxillary palpomere large and strongly securiform; labial palps with 2 palpomeres. Prosternum very short in front of coxae; prosternal process narrow and setose without distinct carinae. Elytral epipleuron complete, not foveate. Protibia angulate externally. Tibial spurs absent; tarsi with 3 tarsomeres. Abdominal postcoxal line recurved and complete. Larva. Covered by incomplete waxy secretion. Dorsal and lateral surfaces with small sclerites and nipple-shaped setose strumae. Head without epicranial stem, frontal arms variable. Antenna 1- or 2-segmented. Mandible unidentate apically. Ventral mouthparts at base fused into solid plate with lateral extensions encompassing labial palps ( Rees et al. 1994). Maxillary palp with 2 palpomeres. Abdominal segments 1–8 with gland openings on intersegmental membranes. Pupa. Almost entirely enclosed in last larval skin.

Distribution. Worldwide but mostly in the tropics of the Old World.