Protoplotina Miyatake

Poorani, J., 2003, A new species of the genus Protoplotina Miyatake (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) from India, Zootaxa 325 (1), pp. 1-5 : 4-5

Key to the species of Protoplotina Miyatake

1 Body pale yellowish brown, elytra with a black stripe starting a little before inner corners of basal margin and running along suture for nearly three­fourths of its length. Associate line of postcoxal line strongly recurved inwards. Distributed in northern India....................................................................................... nigrosuturalis Poorani , sp.nov.

_ Body dark pitchy brown to black, with a transverse median marking on each elytron. Associate line of postcoxal line oblique, enclosing a more or less triangular area with basal line........................................................................................................................ 2

2 Elytron with a transverse, ill­defined reddish band at middle, its external borders somewhat paler. Associate line of postcoxal line touching basal line. Female spermatheca with well­differentiated nodulus and ramus, cornu tubular and apically rounded. Distributed in Vietnam................................................... vietnamica Miyatake

_ Elytron with a transverse oval, yellowish spot at middle. Associate line of postcoxal line not touching basal line. Female spermatheca without well­differentiated nodulus and ramus, cornu apically tapering to an acute point. Distributed in northeastern India.................................................................................................. nr. vietnamica Miyatake