Coccinella transversalis Fabricius, 1781

Das, Priyanka, Chandra, Kailash & Introduction, Devanshu Gupta, 2020, The Ladybird Beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of Arunachal Pradesh, East Himalaya, Indiawith new combinations and new country records, Bonn zoological Bulletin 69 (1), pp. 27-44 : 30-31

10. Coccinella transversalis Fabricius, 1781 ( Fig. 9 )* Coccinella transversalis Fabricius, 1781: 97 ; Iablokoff-Khnzorian, 1979: 68.

Coccinella repanda Thunberg, 1781: 18 .

Material examined. Papum Pare : Kokila North of Chessa, 21.x.1996 (1ex.) (24299/H4A), leg. A.M. Biswas ; Balijan , 23.x.1996 (1ex.) (24300/H4A), leg. S.K. Mondal ; Baderdewa : 11.iv.2001 (2 exs) (24301/H4A), leg. Sheela. East Siang : Boleng , 18.i.2000 (1 ex.) (25312/ H4A), leg. S.K. Mondal. Dihang Dibang Biosphere Reserve, Maliny , 25.x.2017 (4 exs) (24436/H4A), leg. D. Gupta.

Distribution. Widely distributed in throughout India including Arunachal Pradesh (Papum Pare, Baderdewa, East Siang, Dihang Dibang Biosphere Reserve). Elsewhere: Australia, Bangladesh, Indochina, Indonesia, Japan, Nepal, New Zealand, and Sri Lanka ( Poorani 2002b, 2004).

Remarks. It is commonly distributed species in India but was not earlier reported from the state of Arunachal Pradesh.

Figures

Figs 1–9. Habitus of (1) Cryptogonus bimaculatus Kapur, 1948; (2) Cryptogonus quadriguttatus (Weise, 1895); (3) Priscibrumus uropygialis Mulsant, 1853; (4) Alloneda dodecaspilota (Hope, 1831); (5) Calvia albida Bielawski, 1972;(6) Calvia sykesii (Crotch, 1874); (7) Coccinella luteopicta (Mulsant, 1866); (8) Coccinella septempunctata Linnaeus, 1758; (9) Coccinella transversalis Fabricius, 1781.