Anatis ocellata (Linnaeus)

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Coccinella ocellata Linnaeus, 1758: 366 (Type locality: Europe).

Anatis ocellata: Jacobson 1916: 986; Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1982: 304; Kuznetsov 1997: 204; Poorani 2002a: 321; Ren et al. 2009: 174.

Diagnosis. Length: 8.00–9.00 mm; width: 6.00–7.00 mm. Head black with a pair of creamy white spots. Pronotum creamy white with a large, M-shaped median black macula and two smaller ones on lateral sides. Scutellar shield black. Elytra reddish to yellowish with black spots surrounded by characteristic halos (Fig. 22). Genitalia not studied.

Distribution. Pakistan; China; Korean Peninsula; Europe.

Notes. This is one of the popular Palaearctic species of Coccinellini with the elytra having spots surrounded by distinct halos. Genitalia illustrated by Ren et al. (2009).