Jauravia pallidula explained

Jauravia pallidula, is a species of lady beetle native to India, and Sri Lanka.^[1]

Description

Body length is about 3.20 to 4.20 mm. Body broadly oval to circular. Dorsum moderately convex and clothed with silvery white hairy pubescence. Body uniformly yellowish to reddish brown. Antennae with 11 antennomeres. Terminal palpomere of maxilla is elongate and apically obliquely transverse. Prosternal process is broad. Abdomen has five visible ventrites.^{[2] [3]} Adults are deep testaceous, whereas younger ones are much lighter. Head testaceous. Clypeus, mouth-parts and antennae are light fulvous. Eyes are black. Rest of the dorsum is deep testaceous in color. Ventrum alo testaceous. Epipleura is light fulvous. Head covered with very fine and sparse punctures and clothed with short, whitish and sparse pubescence. Pronotum moderately emarginate anteriorly. Pronotal punctation is fine and close, and clothed with white, short and dense pubescence. Elytra lacks a prominent humerus. Elytral punctures are fine, deep and close. Elytral interspaces are narrow with whitish, short and dense pubescence. Ventrum finely and sparsely punctate, with yellowish white, very delicate, short and sparse pubescence.^[4]

It is a predator of Coccus viridis, and Aleurotrachelus atratus.^{[5] [6]}

Notes and References

1. F.R.E.S . A. P. Kapur M. Sc . 1946-02-01 . VIII.—A revision of the genus Jauravia Mots. (Coleoptera Coccinellidæ) . 2021-09-15 . Annals and Magazine of Natural History . 13 . 98 . 73–93 . 10.1080/00222934608654525.
2. Web site: Jauravia pallidula Motschulsky, 1858 . 2021-09-15 . www.gbif.org . en.
3. POORANI . J. . LALITHA . N. . 2018-02-20 . Illustrated accounts of coccinellid predators of Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Green) (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Pseudococcidae) on mulberry in India, with description of a new species of Scymnus Kugelann (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) from West Bengal . 2021-09-15 . Zootaxa . 4382 . 1 . 93–120 . 10.11646/zootaxa.4382.1.3. 29689939 .
4. VIII.--A Revision of the Genus Jauravia . 2021-09-15 . The Annals and Magazine of Natural History . 11th series . 98 . February 1946.
5. Selvaraj . K. . Sundararaj . R. . Sumalatha . B. V. . 2019-07-01 . Invasion of the palm infesting whitefly, Aleurotrachelus atratus Hempel (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) in the Oriental region . 2021-09-15 . Phytoparasitica . 47 . 3 . 327–332 . en . 10.1007/s12600-019-00742-1. 198190265 .
6. Pradhan . Sanjay Kumar . Shylesha . A. N. . Selvaraj . K. . Sumalatha . B. V. . 2021-07-26 . Distribution, Host Range and Status of Invasive Rugose Spiralling Whitefly, Aleurodicus rugioperculatus Martin (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) in Karnataka . 2021-09-15 . Agricultural Research . en . 10.1007/s40003-021-00593-5.