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Issue: Vol. 68 No. 2: 3 Sept. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-09-03
DOI: 10.12976/jib/2025.68.2.3
Page range: 55-62
Abstract views: 226
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A new species of Zenoria Mulsant (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Coccinellinae), with a key to similar two-spotted hairy lady beetles from South America

Laboratório de Sistemática e Bioecologia de Coleoptera, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, 81581-980 Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, Alagoas, 57072-900, Brazil
Laboratório de Sistemática e Bioecologia de Coleoptera, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, 81581-980 Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Laboratório de Sistemática e Bioecologia de Coleoptera, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, 81581-980 Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Laboratório de Sistemática e Bioecologia de Coleoptera, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, 81581-980 Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Azya Azyini Coccinelloidea Ortaliini Pseudoazya Taxonomy

Abstract

Zenoria Mulsant, 1850 (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Coccinellinae) is a Neotropical genus of lady beetles. Zenoria species are similar to species of Azyini in having a hairy dorsal surface with a black discal spot on each elytron formed by dark pubescence. Therefore, this paper provides an identification key for the two-spotted hairy lady beetles from South America, which include species of Azya Mulsant, Pseudoazya Gordon, and Zenoria. This paper also describes a new species, Zenoria candango Duarte-de-Mélo & Almeida sp. nov., from Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil. This is the 39th described species of Zenoria and the genus now comprises 18 species from Brazil.

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