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Issue: Vol. 1772 No. 1: 19 May. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-05-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1772.1.3
Page range: 63–68
Abstract views: 48
PDF downloaded: 21

A new Chilean species of Cycloneda Crotch (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Coccinellinae: Coccinellini)

Systematic Entomology Lab, Plant Sciences Institute, Agriculture Research Service, USDA, c/o National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, MRC-168, Washington, DC
Santiago, Chile, Nocedal 6455 La Reina, 56-02-4532998
Coleoptera Insecta Coccinellidae Cycloneda new species key South America Chile

Abstract

Cycloneda pretiosa, new species is described from Lago Pirihueico in southern Chile The species is diagnosed and compared with both related and superficially similar species. Habitus and genitalic characters are illustrated. Geographical and temporal data are given. The new species is assigned to the Cycloneda germainii species complex and integrated into the key to species of this group (González and Vandenberg, 2006).

References

  1. González, G. & Vandenberg, N.J. (2006) Review of lady beetles in the Cycloneda germainii species complex (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Coccinellinae: Coccinellini) with descriptions of new and unusual species from Chile and surrounding countries. Zootaxa, 1311, 13–50.

    Vandenberg, N.J. (2002) The New World genus Cycloneda Crotch (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Coccinellini): Historical review, new diagnosis, new generic and specific synonyms, and an improved key to North American species. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 104(1), 221–236.