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Telsimia postocula Kapur 1967
Creators
- 1. ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Thogamalai Road, Thayanur Post, Tiruchirappalli 620102, Tamil Nadu, India. Corresponding author: pooranij @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3879 - 3264
Description
Telsimia postocula Kapur
(Fig. 11c, d)
Telsimia postocula Kapur, 1966: 169.— Poorani, 2002: 316.
Diagnosis. Form elongate oval, dorsum convex and densely pubescent. Dorsal side dark brown to black with a pair of yellowish spots in the apical one-third of elytra (Fig. 11c, d). Elytral pattern unique and diagnostic in combination with the other generic characters and the genitalia. See Kapur (1969) for detailed description and illustrations of the male genitalia.
Material examined..
Distribution. India: Endemic to Andamans.
Prey / associated habitat. The holotype was collected on coconut (Kapur 1966). Collected in association with coconut scale, Aspidiotus destructor Signoret (label data).
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Notes
Published as part of Poorani, J. & Thanigairaj, R., 2023, -- A- - brief- - review- - of- - the- - tribe- - Telsimiini- - (Coleoptera: -- Coccinellidae) -- of- - the- - Indian-subcontinent, -- including- - three- - new- - species- - of- - Telsimia Casey- - from- - South- - India, pp. 358-380 in Zootaxa 5352 (3) on pages 373-374, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5352.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/8407416
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BMNH
- Event date
- 1993-02-10
- Family
- Coccinellidae
- Genus
- Telsimia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Kapur
- Species
- postocula
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 1993-02-10/26
- Taxonomic concept label
- Telsimia postocula Kapur, 1967 sec. Poorani & Thanigairaj, 2023
References
- Poorani, J. (2002) An annotated checklist of the Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) (excluding Epilachninae) of the Indian subregion. Oriental Insects, 36, 307 - 383. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00305316.2002.10417335
- Kapur, A. P. (1969) On some Coccinellidae of the tribe Telsimiini with descriptions of new species from India. Bulletin of Systematic Zoology, 1 (2), 45 - 56.