Brumoides Chapin, 1965

Biranvand, Amir, Tomaszewska, Wioletta, Li, Wenjing, Nicolas, Vincent, Shakarami, Jahanshir, Fekrat, Lida & Hesami, Shahram, 2017, Review of the tribe Chilocorini Mulsant from Iran (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae), ZooKeys 712, pp. 43-68 : 46

Brumoides Chapin, 1965

Brumoides Chapin, 1965: 237. Type species: Coccinella suturalis Fabricius, 1798, by original designation.

Diagnosis.

Body length 2.0-3.5 mm. Dorsum glabrous; yellowish or brown, elytra with dark markings. Eye distinctly emarginate. Antenna composed of 8 antennomeres; terminal antennomere small, partly embedded in penultimate one. Clypeus short; labrum exposed. Pronotal base bordered; prosternal process extremely narrow, without carinae; without hypomeral fovea. Fore tibia narrow, simple, middle and hind tibiae with two apical spurs; tarsal claws appendiculate or weakly thickened basally. Abdominal ventrite 6 visible in males; abdominal postcoxal lines separated medially, each arcuately recurving apically and reaching or nearly reaching midpoint of lateral line (after Ślipiński 2007).

Ecology.

Various species of Brumoides have been associated with mealybugs ( Ślipiński 2007), namely Coccidohystrix insolita ( Hemiptera : Pseudococcidae ), Dactylopius confusus ( Hemiptera : Dactylopiidae ), Ferrisia virgata ( Hemiptera : Pseudococcidae ), and Phenacoccus solenopsis ( Hemiptera : Pseudoccocidae ) ( Gordon 1985, Gautam 1990, Hodek and Honěk 2009, Arif et al. 2012, Giorgi et al. 2014). Some species of this genus, such as Brumoides suturalis (F.) feed on some whitefly species, such as Aleurolobus barodensis (Maskell) ( Inayatullah 1984, Hodek and Honěk 2009) in addition to feeding on some coccids, such as F. virgata (better for development) and Planococcus pacificus (better for oviposition) ( Gautam 1990).