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Issue: Vol. 5325 No. 1: 7 Aug. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-08-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5325.1.6
Page range: 97-115
Abstract views: 307
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Slipinskiscymnus gen. nov., a new ladybird genus of Scymnini (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) and notes on the taxonomic status of Keiscymnus Sasaji

Department of Forest Protection; College of Forestry and Landscape Architecture; South China Agricultural University; Guangzhou 510640; China; Engineering Research Center of Biological control; Ministry of Education; Guangzhou 510642; China
ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana; Thogamalai Road; Thayanur Post; Trichy 620102; Tamil Nadu; India
Coleoptera Section; Natural History Museum; Cromwell Road; London SW7 5BD; United Kingdom
Research Center of Agricultural Pest Biocontrol of Guangdong Province; Guangzhou 510640; China
Department of Forest Protection; College of Forestry and Landscape Architecture; South China Agricultural University; Guangzhou 510640; China; Engineering Research Center of Biological control; Ministry of Education; Guangzhou 510642; China
ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana; Thogamalai Road; Thayanur Post; Trichy 620102; Tamil Nadu; India
Coleoptera Coccinelloidea Scymnini Keiscymnus new combination new species new genus

Abstract

Slipinskiscymnus gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) is proposed to accommodate two anomalous species of Scymnini, namely, Scymnus pallidicollis Mulsant, 1853 (= Slipinskiscymnus pallidicollis (Mulsant), comb. nov.) and Scymnus saciformis Motschulsky, 1858 (=Slipinskiscymnus saciformis (Motschulsky), comb. nov.) and five new species, Slipinskiscymnus confertus Peng et Chen sp. nov., S. siculiformis Peng et Chen sp. nov., S. spiculatus Peng et Chen sp. nov., S. interstricus Peng et Chen sp. nov. and S. keralensis Poorani sp. nov., described from China and India. A lectotype is designated for Scymnus saciformis Motschulsky, 1858 (lectotype designation). Descriptive accounts of these species with illustrations of adult habitus, male genitalia and other diagnostic characters are given with a key to species. Notes on the status of the genus Keiscymnus Sasaji, 1971, are also provided.

 

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