Pseudaspidimerus mauliki

Pseudaspidimerus mauliki
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Coccinellidae
Genus:	Pseudaspidimerus
Species:	P. mauliki
Binomial name
Pseudaspidimerus mauliki (Walker, 1859)
Synonyms
Pseudaspidimerus maulihi var. siamensisKapur, 1948 Pseudaspidimerus rectangulatus(Kuznetsov & Pang, 1991) Pseudaspidimerus serratus(Kuznetsov & Pang, 1991

Pseudaspidimerus mauliki is a species of lady beetle native to India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Thailand, and Java. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}

Description

Body color with two forms; one form with reddish testaceous body with a pronotal black marking and three-spotted elytra. Second form with plain testaceous brown body without any markings. Prosternal carinae is subrectangular. and the carinae are sub-parallel. ^{[7] [8]}

References

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8. Huo, Lizhi; Li, Wenjing; Wang, Xingmin (2017-10-05). "Pseudaspidimerus palatus, a new species of the genus Pseudaspidimerus Kapur, 1948 from the Malay Peninsula (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae)". ZooKeys (706): 109–115. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.706.18081 . PMC   5674088 . PMID   29118623 . Retrieved 2021-09-11.