Coccinelloidea (Scymnus), Kugelann, 1794

Rashid, Azad, Chen, Xiaosheng, Qiu, Baoli & Wang, Xingmin, 2017, A new species of the subgenus Scymnus from Pakistan (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae), ZooKeys 694, pp. 31-39 : 33

Subgenus Scymnus Kugelann, 1794

Scymnus Kugelann, 1794: 545. Type species: designated by Westwood 1838: 43, Scymnus nigrinus Kugelann, 1794.

Anisoscymnus Crotch, 1874: 273. Type species: Coccinella rufipes Fabricius, 1798, by original designation.

Diagnosis.

Members of the subgenus Scymnus can be easily distinguished by the following combination of characters: body small, oval or elongate oval; antennae 11-segmented (Fig. 1f); prosternum having distinct carinae, nearly reaching the anterior margin (Fig. 1b); abdominal postcoxal line incomplete, recurved forward, never reaching lateral margin of ventrite; area surrounding by postcoxal line sparsely punctate; abdomen with six ventrites, 5th and 6th abdominal ventrites in male truncate or emarginate apically in male (Fig. 1i); female genitalia with distinct infundibulum.

Distribution.

Worldwide ( Chen et al. 2013).