Sidonis consanguinea ( Mulsant, 1850 )

Churata-Salcedo, Julissa M., Almeida, Lucia M., González, Guillermo & Gordon, Robert D., 2017, On the taxonomy of the genus Sidonis Mulsant, stat. nov. (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Chnoodini) with descriptions of new species from Brazil, Zootaxa 4350 (3) : -

Sidonis consanguinea ( Mulsant, 1850)

( Figs. 7–11 )

Aulis consanguinea Mulsant 1850: 935 (original description); Mulsant 1853: 327 (list); Crotch 1874: 294 (list); Gemminger & Harold 1876: 3805 (catalog); Korschefsky 1931: 95 (catalog); Blackwelder 1945: 443 (checklist).

Diagnosis. Length 3.30 mm, width 2.80 mm. Body slightly oval; with uniform, bristly, long, yellowish pubescence; integument dark, punctation dense ( Fig. 7 ). Head, antennae and mouthparts reddish ( Fig. 9 ). Pronotum dark greenish with two reddish lateral spots ( Fig. 9 ). Scutellar shield triangular, dark greenish. Elytra greenish, with an oblique reddish spot at apex ( Figs. 7–8 ). Differs from S. biguttata by the lack of two small spots in middle of elytral length. Legs reddish with flattened femora and narrow tibiae. Abdomen with postcoxal lines reaching the posterior margin of the first ventrite ( Fig. 10 ).

Geographical distribution. Colombia.

Type material. Lectotype was labelled in 1970 by Gordon and deposited in Musée des Confluences, Lyon, France ( MHNL). This designation was not published so we now designate this specimen as the lectotype ( Figs. 7– 11 ). The lectotype was studied from photographs.

Figures

FIGURES 7 – 11. Sidonis consanguinea (Mulsant, 1850). Lectotype from Musée des Confluences, Lyon, France (MNHL), 7. dorsal view, 8. lateral view, 9. frontal view, 10. abdomen, 11. labels.