Chnoodes Chevrolat, 1843

Duarte-De-Mélo, Jefferson, Almeida, Lúcia Massutti De & Lima, Iracilda Maria De Moura, 2025, A diversity panorama of Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) from Northeastern Brazil, Zootaxa 5728 (3), pp. 451-495 : 459

Chnoodes Chevrolat, 1843

Chnoodes Chevrolat in D’Orbigny, 1843: 612; Mulsant, 1850: 908; Crotch, 1874: 286; Chapuis, 1876: 222; Gorham, 1895: 215; Korschefsky, 1932: 225; Blackwelder, 1945: 450; Gordon, 1987: 33–35; Gordon, 2007a: 1; Krüger et al., 2016: 270 .

Chapinella Gordon, 1996a: 27 ; 2007a: 1.

Chapinula Ukrainsky, 2006: 400 ; Nedvěd & Kovář, 2012: 529.

Type species: Chnoodes chaudoiri Mulsant, 1850 ; by subsequent designation of Gordon (2007a).

Distribution by States in the Northeast Region of Brazil. Ceará; Paraíba; Pernambuco; Bahia.

Species from the Northeast Region of Brazil. Chnoodes arrowi Brèthes, 1925 ; Chnoodes brasiliensis Korschefsky, 1935 ; Chnoodes chaudoiri Mulsant, 1850 ; Chnoodes gounellei Sicard, 1912 ; Chnoodes nigra Weise, 1895 [ new record] ( Fig. 6 ); Chnoodes separata Mader, 1957 ; Chnoodes tarsalis Weise, 1904 [ new record] ( Fig. 7 ); Chnoodes terminalis Mulsant, 1850 ; Chnoodes trivia Mulsant, 1853 .

Material examined. Chnoodes nigra : “ Brasil, Pernambuco,/ Camaragibe PE 027 Km/ 14, 01-31.v. 2019, 140m,/ - 7.929°S, - 35.038°W,/ P.C. Grossi leg.” “ Chnoodes / nigra / Weise, 1895 / J. Duarte-de-Mélo det. 2023” [white label] 1 ex. [ CERPE 1798]; “ BRASIL, Pernambuco,/ Camaragibe (Aldeia)/ PE 027 Km 14 – 26-X-2019 / Grossi, P.C. & Melo, G. leg.” “ Chnoodes / nigra / Weise, 1895 / J. Duarte-de-Mélo det. 2023” [white label] 1 ex. [ CERPE 1799]; “ BRASIL, PE [ Pernambuco], Camaragibe\ Aldeia, Km 8.5\ II/2016. P. Grossi col.” “ ♂ ” “ Chnoodes sp. / Krüger T. C. det 2018” “ Chnoodes / nigra / Weise, 1895 / J. Duarte-de-Mélo det. 2023” [white label] 1 ex. [ DZUP 402263]; “Cruz das Almas-Ba [ Bahia]/ Pumba – Citros/ Ortézia dos citros” “ ♂ ” “ Chnoodes sp. / Krüger T. C. det 2018” “ Chnoodes / nigra / Weise, 1895 / J. Duarte-de-Mélo det. 2023” [white label] 1 ex. [ DZUP 245775]; “Cruz das Almas-Ba [ Bahia]/ Pumba – Citros/ Ortézia dos citros” “ ♀ ” “ Chnoodes sp. / Krüger T. C. det 2018” “ Chnoodes / nigra / Weise, 1895 / J. Duarte-de-Mélo det. 2023” [white label] 1 ex. [ DZUP 401823]. Chnoodes tarsalis : “ BRASIL, BA [ Bahia], Lençois,\ 4 Km NW de Lençois\ 22-24/ x/ 1999 \ Lg. Freddy e Mazzarolo” “ Chnoodes sp. \ Krüger, T. C. det 2018” “ ♀ ” “ Chnoodes / tarsalis / Weise, 1904 / J. Duarte-de-Mélo det. 2023” [white label] 1 ex [ MZUEFS #6257].

Comments. Twenty species of Chnoodes occur in Brazil, C. nigra and C. tarsalis are the eighth and ninth species documented for NE Brazil ( Krüger et al. 2025).

Figures

FIGURES 2–7. New records of Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) for the Northeast Region of Brazil. 2: Cyrea maxine Canepari & Gordon, 2016. 3: Dilatitibialis laterinotata (Brèthes, 1925). 4: Serratitibia shirley Gordon & Canepari, 2013. 5: Curinus coeruleus (Mulsant, 1850)*. 6: Chnoodes nigra Weise, 1895. 7: Chnoodes tarsalis Weise, 1904. *Confirmation record for the Northeast Region of Brazil. Scale bars = 1 mm.