Hippodamia Chevrolat

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 : 149-150

Genus Hippodamia Chevrolat

Hippodamia Chevrolat in Dejean, 1836: 432.

Type species: Coccinella tredecimpunctata Linnaeus, 1758 , designated by Crotch 1874: 94.

Hemisphaerica Hope, 1840: 157 . Type species: Coccinella quinquesignata Kirby, 1837 (by monotypy). Synonymized by Belicek, 1976: 338.

Adonia Mulsant, 1846: 39 . Type species: Coccinella mutabilis Scriba (1790) (= Adonia variegata ( Goeze, 1777)) (by monotypy). Synonymized by Belicek, 1976: 338.

Parippodamia Iablokoff-Khnzorian, 1979: 51, 65. Type species: Coccinella arctica Schneider, 1792 (by original designation) [as subgenus]. Synonymised by Kovář 2007: 616.

Diagnosis. Form elongate oval, oblong, moderately or weakly convex; coloration reddish / orange / yellowish with black spots and other markings. Anterior clypeal margin truncate between lateral projections. Antenna 11- segmented with a compact club, slightly shorter than the head width. Terminal maxillary palpomere strongly securiform. Prosternal intercoxal process narrow, feebly convex, without carinae. Prothoracic hypomeron without foveae. Anterior margin of mesoventrite straight and faintly elevated. Mid-and hind tibiae with a pair of apical spurs. Abdominal postcoxal line complete and shallowly semicircular when present or totally absent. Tarsal claws cleft near apical one-third.

Distribution. Hippodamia has about 35 species, mainly Holarctic in distribution ( Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1982; Gordon 1985).

Affinities. Tomaszewska et al. (2021) included it under the Hippodamia- group of genera along with Harmonia and Aphidecta .

Included species. Five species are known from the Indian region of which only H. variegata (Goeze) is widely distributed in northern and northwestern India and appears to be slowly expanding its range to the cooler parts of western and peninsular India. Recently Biranvand et al. (2021) summarised the taxonomic history of Hippodamia and reviewed the Palaearctic species and provided a key to species, three of which are found in the Indian region.