Nephus Mulsant, 1846

Iqbal, Zafar, Azad, Rashid, Szawaryn, Karol, Chen, Xiao-Sheng, Xu, Hai-Zhou, Li, Xin-Yi, Bodlah, Imran, Wunjuntuk, Kansuda & Nasir, Muhammad Farooq, 2025, A review of the genus Nephus Mulsant, 1846 (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) from Pakistan, Zootaxa 5661 (3), pp. 367-380 : 368

Genus Nephus Mulsant, 1846

Diagnosis. Body elongate oval to oval, weakly convex, dorsum covered with pubescence ( Figs 1a, 2a, 3a, 4a–b, 5a–b, 6a, 7a, 8a). Antennae are composed of 10 or 11 antennomeres (first and second antennomeres partly or fully fused) ( Figs 1e, 2d, 3d, 4e, 7e, 8e). Prosternal process relatively wide, with surface almost flat, and without carinae ( Figs 1c, 7c, 8c). Abdomen with six ventrites; abdominal postcoxal lines incomplete laterally, slightly recurved apically ( Figs 1d, 2c, 3c, 4d, 5d, 6c, 7d, 8d). Tarsi with 3 tarsomeres.