Jauravia limbata explained

Jauravia limbata, is a species of lady beetle native to India, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Description

It is very similar to Synonychimorpha chittagongi. Body moderate in size. Dorsum is less convex with less broadly explanate lateral borders of elytra.^{[5] [6]} Body length is 2.3 to 2.5 mm. Body broadly oval and convex. Head testaceous and eyes are black. Clypeus and other appendages are yellowish brown. Pronotum pale testaceous, and the scutellum is fuscous. Elytra is black but the lateral and apical borders with broad testaceous in color. Ventrum and legs are yellowish brown. Mesosternum, metasternum and the first two abdominal sternites are pale. Head and pronotum are finely and closely punctate as well as densely pubescent with white long hairs. Elytral punctures are slightly coarse, deep and dense. Elytral interspaces are narrow, smooth and shiny. Ventrum with fine and sparse punctures. Some parts of metasternum and abdominal sternites have coarser and closer punctures. Ventrum clothed with delicate, short and sparse pubescence.^[7]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Jauravia limbata Motschulsky, 1858 . 2021-09-13 . www.gbif.org . en.
2. Web site: Zicha. Ondrej. BioLib: Biological library . 2021-09-13 . www.biolib.cz.
3. DORJI . CHETEN . LODAY . PHUNTSHO . VORST . OSCAR . 2019-12-23 . A preliminary checklist of the Coccinellidae of Bhutan (Insecta: Coleoptera) . 2021-09-13 . Zootaxa . 4712 . 4 . 497–530 . 10.11646/zootaxa.4712.4.2. 32230665 . free .
4. Web site: Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) from the Nepal Himalayas*) . 2021-09-12 . Stuttgarter Beitr. Naturk. Sen A Nr. 565 65 S. Stuttgart, 31. 12. 1997.
5. Web site: A new species of the genus Synonychimorpha Miyatake (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) from South India . 2021-09-12 . Zootaxa 212: 1-6 (2003).
6. F.R.E.S . A. P. Kapur M. Sc . 1946-02-01 . VIII.—A revision of the genus Jauravia Mots. (Coleoptera Coccinellidæ) . 2021-09-13 . Annals and Magazine of Natural History . 13 . 98 . 73–93 . 10.1080/00222934608654525.
7. Web site: VIII.--A Revision of the Genus Jauravia . 2021-09-15 . THE ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY [ELEVENTH SERIES.] No. 98. FEBI~UAR¥ 1946.