Chilocorus melas Weise, 1898

Li, Wenjing, Huo, Lizhi, Wang, Di, Ahrens, Dirk & Wang, Xingmin, 2018, Contribution to the genus Chilocorus Leach, 1815 (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Chilocorini), with descriptions of two new species from China, European Journal of Taxonomy 469, pp. 1-34 : 9-10

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scientific name	Chilocorus melas Weise, 1898
status

Treatment

Figs 5, 21

Chilocorus melas Weise, 1898b: 229 .

Chilocorus gressitti Miyatake, 1970: 330 . Chilocorus melas – Korschefsky 1932: 243. — Booth 1998: 364. — Poorani 2002: 311. — Pang et al. 2004: 28. — Kovář 2007: 593. — Ren et al. 2009: 132.

Chilocorus gressitti – Pang & Mao 1979: 84. — Hoáng 1983: 18. — Jing 1992: 567. — Cao et al. 1992: 159. — Pang et al. 2002: 317.

Chilocorus nigritus – Liu 1963: 78.

Material examined

CHINA: Guangdong Prov.: 1 ♀, Tianma, Xinhui, 24 Apr. 1956, Z.B. Zhou leg. ( SCAU); 4 ♀♀, Xinhui, Nov. 1956, collector unknown ( SCAU); 1 ♀, Nanhai, 14 Oct. 1955, L.B. Huo leg. ( SCAU). – Guangxi Prov.: 1 Ƌ, Longsheng, 6 Apr. 1974, Y.L. Luo leg. ( SCAU); 1 Ƌ, Nanning, 4 Aug. 1985, X.F. Pang leg. ( SCAU). – Fujian Prov.: 1 Ƌ, Huaan, 26 Apr. 1982, Y.Q. Tang leg. ( SCAU). – Hainan Prov.: 1 Ƌ; 3 ♀♀, Diaoluoshan, Jul. 1995, Z.Q. Peng leg. ( SCAU); 1 Ƌ, Diaoluoshan, 8 May 2005, X.M. Wang leg. ( SCAU); 1 Ƌ, Dongfang, 27 Nov. 1997, Z.Q. Peng leg. ( SCAU).

Distribution

China ( Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Sichuan, Yunnan, Hongkong) ( Fig. 21), Burma, Thailand, Laos, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Indonesia.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Coccinellidae
Genus	Chilocorus