Hippodamia heydeni Weise

POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, Zootaxa 5332 (1), pp. 1-307 : 153

Hippodamia heydeni Weise

( Fig. 106b )

Semiadalia heydeni Weise, 1892: 109 (Type locality: Central Asia ).

Hippodamia heydeni: Dobzhansky 1927: 216 ; Mader 1928: 57; Kapur 1957: 269; 1963a: 30; Poorani 2002a: 332, 333. Hippodamia (Asemiadalia) heydeni: Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1979: 66 .

Diagnosis. Length:5.00–7.00 mm.Form elongate oval, dorsum weakly convex and glabrous.Head as in H.andrewesi , anteriorly yellow and posteriorly black with a narrow, v-shaped emargination; pronotum with a transverse black discal macula, antero-and posterolateral areas yellowish, elytral pattern as illustrated ( Fig. 106b ). Colour pattern variable, one variant similar to that in H. andrewesi . Genitalia not studied.

Distribution. Himalayas.

Note. Kapur (1963) recorded it from Tibet and illustrated the colour variations and the male genitalia. Hippodamia andrewesi ( Sicard, 1913) , a valid species, was erroneously synonymized with H. heydeni by Iablokoff-Khnzorian (1979: 66) (see notes under H. heydeni ).

Figures

FIGURE 106. a. Hippodamia arctica (Schneider) (BMNH); b. Hippodamia heydeni Weise (Photo courtesy: K.V. Makarov); c, d. Hippodamia tredecimpunctata (Linnaeus) (BMNH).