Horniolus novempunctatus
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Coccinellidae
Genus: Horniolus
Name
Horniolus novempunctatus Miyatake, 1979 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
Diagnosis
This distinctive species can easily be separated from the other species of Horniolus by its peculiar colour pattern on elytra.
Description
TL: 2.95 mm, TW: 2.00 mm, TH: 1.52 mm, TL/TW: 1.47, PL/PW: 0.51, EL/EW: 1.12, HW/PW: 0.63, PW/EW: 0.86.
Body elongate oval, moderately convex, dorsum covered with white pubescence (Fig. 2a–c). Head, antennae and mouthparts brown. Pronotum brown to dark brown. Scutellum black. Elytra yellow with nine black spots (Fig. 2a). Underside chestnut (Fig. 2d).
Head with fine frontal punctures, as large as eye facets, 0.5–1.0 diameter apart. Eyes finely faceted, interocular distance 0.56 times head width. Pronotal punctures slightly larger than those on frons, 1.0–2.0 diameters apart. Surface of elytra with punctures larger than those on pronotum, separated by 2.0–3.0 diameters. Prosternal carinae Y-shaped with stem approximately ⅓ as long as arm, arms broadly separated. Abdominal postcoxal lines strongly recurved and complete laterally (Fig. 2d), reaching 4/5 length of abdominal ventrite 1, area enclosed by lines coarsely punctate, narrowly smooth along line. Abdominal ventrite 5 in female with apex rounded.
Male unknown.
Type material
Holotype: female, Juisui, Taiwan, [23°31.23'N, 121°24.67'E, ca 300 m], 4. IV. 1974, Takeda S. leg (ELEU, Fig. 2e).
Distribution
China (Taiwan).
Taxon Treatment
- Chen, X; Xie, X; Ren, S; Wang, X; 2016: A taxonomic review of the genus Horniolus Weise from China, with description of a new species (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) ZooKeys, (623): 1-19. doi
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Other References
- ↑ Pang H, Ren S, Zeng T, Pang X (2004) Biodiversity and their utilization of Coccinellidae in China. Science and Technology Press of Guangdong, Guangzhou, 168 pp. [In Chinese]
- ↑ Kovář I (2007) New nomenclatorial and taxonomic acts and comments. Coccinellidae. In: Löbl I Smetana A (Eds) Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 4. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, 71–73, 568–631.
