Jauravia soror explained

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

Description

Body length is about 2.5 to 2.8 mm. Body sub-hemispherical. Dorsum reddish brown to reddish testaceous. External elytral borders are shiny and much lighter. Ventrum is brown. Epipleura of prothorax, elytra, and legs are yellowish-brown. Head very finely and fairly densely punctate. Pubescence on head is whitish, long and sparse. Pronotum deeply emarginate anteriorly. Elytral punctation is fine and close and clothed with whitish, long and sparse pubescence. Elytral punctures are fine, shallow and less dense. Elytral interspaces are coriaceous, shiny and clothed with white, long, sub-erect and sparse pubescence. Ventrum finely and sparsely punetate, and clothed with yellowish white, short, delicate, sub-depressed and sparse pubescence.^[4]

It is a predator of Hemaspidoproctus cinereus, Tetranychus bioculatus, Raoiella indica, Trialeurodes ricini and Dialeurodes citri.^{[5] [6]}

Notes and References

1. Das . Soma . Roy . Somnath . Mukhopadhyay . Ananda . 2010 . Diversity of arthropod natural enemies in the tea plantations of North Bengal with emphasis on their association with tea pests . 2021-09-15 . Current Science . 99 . 10 . 1457–1463. 24069158 .
2. Muraleedharan . N. . Selvasundaram . R. . Radhakrishnan . B. . October 1988 . Natural Enemies of Certain Tea Pests Occurring in Southern India . 2021-09-15 . International Journal of Tropical Insect Science . 9 . 5 . 647–654 . en . 10.1017/S1742758400005166. 86414490 .
3. Web site: Taxonomy of Indian Coccinellidae with Observations on the Role of some Species in Agroecosystem . 2021-09-15 . DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY ALIGARH (INDIA) 1997.
4. 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.
5. Web site: Taxonomy of predatory coccinellid beetles (Coccinellidae:coleoptera) in rice and vegetables . 2021-09-15 . krishikosh.
6. Web site: Jauravia soror . 2021-09-15 . www.cabi.org.