Platynaspis vittigera Weise 1895

Original description in:
Weise, J. 1895. Neue Coccinelliden, sowie Bemerkungen zu bekannten Arten. Annales de la Société Entomologique du Belgique 39
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12724549#page/158/mode/1up
Translated from Latin & German:
Short oval, finely gray pubescent, fine punctuation, black, shiny, prothorax anterior angles of prothorax and legs testaceous, each elytron with a wide, parallel yellow band, posteriorly not at all abbreviated. - Long. 2.5 mm. - Banana DR Congo.

A small, shiny species that is easily recognized by the yellow longitudinal band on each elytron.
Broadly egg-shaped, shiny black, with extremely dense, short and very fine gray hair, with poorly defined, reddish yellow-brown a spot in the anterior angles of the pronotum, which reaches to the inner edge of the eyes, and on the sides to behind the middle and with yellow-brown legs. On each elytron a broad longitudinal lighter, brownish yellow band. This band is uniformly wide, takes up just over 1/3 of the width of each elytron, runs parallel to the suture and is located much closer to the suture than the elytral edge. The band is black-lined on the edge: narrow and indistinct at the base, wider at its tip. You could also describe the pattern of the elytra as follows: Both have 5 longitudinal bands, a wide, black lateral one on each elytron, a similarly wide yellow one on each side to the inside, as well as a common, slightly narrower sutural band, which narrows imperceptibly at the front and back and is connected to the outer band.
The male will probably have a yellow head.

Distribution after Mader 1954, page 59: Belg.-Congo von Banana bis zum Seengebiet des PNA (Rutshuru, Kivu, ex MCB), Südafrika ohne nahere Angabe, det. WEISE, in meiner Sammlung
Mader 1954, page 58/59 mention of a specimen det Weise from South Africa
http://www.apncb.be/archives/publications/exploration-national-park-albert/exploration-national-park-albert-first-series/mission-g.-f.-de-witte-1933-1935/1954-fascicule-80-coccinellidae/mader-coccinellini-index.pdf/download/en/1/Mader_1954_complet.pdf

Also recorded from Kenya (Lund collection)
https://ento.biomus.lu.se/search.php?taxa=Chilocorinae&family=Coccinellidae

GBIF records from South Africa available:
https://www.gbif.org/fr/occurrence/search?taxon_key=12230375

iNat observations from South Africa:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/232208354
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/170423059

Publicado el julio 31, 2024 07:44 MAÑANA por traianbertau