Biology:Novius breviuscula

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Novius breviuscula
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N. breviuscula
Binomial name
Novius breviuscula
(Weise, 1892)
Synonyms
  • Rodolia breviuscula Weise, 1892

Novius breviuscula is a species of lady beetle native to India, Sri Lanka and Myanmar.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Description

Body length is about 3.25 to 5.5 mm.[7] Body hemispherical. Body color dark brownish red both dorsally and ventrally. Body with greyish white or light yellow pubescence. There are fine, close and shallow punctures on head and pronotum. In male, the sixth abdominal sternite is fairly deeply emarginate at the apex. In female however, the sixth abdominal sternite is entire.[8]

Biology

It is a predator of Maconellicoccus hirsutus.[7]

References

  1. "Further notes on the Indian species of Rodolia Mulsant (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)". https://sportdocbox.com/Freshwater_Fishing/92452169-Further-notes-on-the-indian-species-of-rodolia-mulsant-coleoptera-coccinellidae.html. 
  2. Poorani, J. (2002-01-01). "An annotated checklist of the Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) (excluding Epilachninae) of the Indian Subregion". pp. 307–383. doi:10.1080/00305316.2002.10417335. https://doi.org/10.1080/00305316.2002.10417335. 
  3. Vinothkumar, B. (2013-09-04). "Diversity of Coccinellid Predators in Upland Rainfed Rice Ecosystem" (in en). pp. 184–189. http://ischolar.info/index.php/jbc/article/view/45600. 
  4. "Biodiversity and seasonality of predaceous coccinellids (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) in mango agro-ecosystem of Jharkhand". http://14.139.94.4/nicrarevised/images/publications/Research_art/NRM5_Biodiversity%20and%20Seasonality.pdf. 
  5. "Diversity of coccinellid predators in upland rainfed rice ecosystem". http://www.informaticsjournals.in/index.php/jbc/article/viewFile/3275/2358. 
  6. "FURTHER NOTES ON THE INDIAN SPECIES OF RODOLIA MULSANT (COLEOPTERA: COCCINELLIDAE).". http://faunaofindia.nic.in/PDFVolumes/records/048/02/0001-0007.pdf. 
  7. 7.0 7.1 "New records of predatory coccinellids beetles (Coccinellidae: Coleoptera) in Western plain zone of Uttar Pradesh". https://www.entomoljournal.com/archives/2017/vol5issue3/PartP/5-2-250-532.pdf. 
  8. "ON THE INDIAN SPECIES OF RODOLIA MULSANT (COLEOPTERA—COCCINELLIDAE).". https://www.zin.ru/animalia/coleoptera/addpages/andrey_ukrainsky_library/references_files/kapur49.pdf. 

Wikidata ☰ Q108565549 entry