Buprestodera Sicard, 1911

Poorani, J., Větrovec, Jaroslav & Szawaryn, Karol, 2025, A review of Indian Plotinini (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) including description of a new species, Zootaxa 5711 (4), pp. 451-481 : 456

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5711.4.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:EB78ABF6-9C17-4633-9102-A2855A6EE5C8

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F94D28-FF85-181A-E2C6-838335C9FC22

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scientific name

Buprestodera Sicard
status

 

Key to species of Buprestodera Sicard

1. Body unicolorous, yellowish-orange except head darker reddish brown; legs piceous to blackish piceous................................................................................................... B. inornata Miyatake

-. Body tricolored, ground colour reddish to reddish brown with black and yellow maculae............................. 2

2. Form elongate oval. Ground colour bright reddish orange, elytra with black and yellow maculae of variable size and shape as illustrated in Figs. 3 View FIGURE 3 , 5a View FIGURE 5 , 4a–c View FIGURE 4 . Male genitalia in inner view with penis guide with a single basal angulation on lateral margin, glabrous at base ( Figs 5b–d View FIGURE 5 , 6d–k View FIGURE 6 ), female genitalia ( Fig. 4d View FIGURE 4 ), and spermatheca ( Fig. 4e View FIGURE 4 ) as illustrated... B. mimetica Sicard

-. Form elongate, distinctly broader oval. Ground colour darker reddish to reddish brown, elytra with two transverse yellow maculae, one below basal margin and the other below middle and four much smaller, black spots as illustrated in Figs 10a–c View FIGURE 10 , 11a–c View FIGURE 11 . Male genitalia in inner view with penis guide with two lateral angulations at base and in apical part, distinctly setose at base ( Fig. 10e–h View FIGURE 10 ), female genitalia ( Fig. 11g View FIGURE 11 ) and spermatheca ( Fig. 11h, i View FIGURE 11 ) as illustrated............... B. reclusa sp. nov.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Coccinellidae

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