Novius sanguinolentus Mulsant 1850
Creators: name: Pang, Hong
name: Tang, Xue-Fei
name: Booth, Roger G.
name: Vandenberg, Natalia
name: Forrester, Juanita
name: Mchugh, Joseph
name: Ślipiński, Adam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Novius
Novius sanguinolentus

description: <i>Novius sanguinolentus</i> Mulsant (Figs 30–38, 65–68, 84–87, 127–136) <i>Novius sanguinolentus</i> Mulsant, 1850: 943. TL:: “l’Australie”. Booth &amp; Pope, 1989: 363 (Lectotype designation). <i>Rodolia sanguinolenta</i>: Weise, 1916: 50. &amp;Sacute;lipi&amp;nacute;ski, 2007: 143. <b> <i>Diagnosis</i>.</b> <i>Novius sanguinolentus</i> is externally very variable and can only be identified by the form of the male genitalia, especially by the characteristic large apical barb on the apex of the penis guide. <b> <i>Description</i>.</b> Length 2.2–3.5 mm. Body oval, widest near middle, 1.2–1.3 times longer than wide. Color pattern variable. Head and pronotum uniformly dark or with anterior corners of pronotum reddish. Elytra of typical form, testaceous or brown with narrow yellowish lateral margin (Figs 65–68); rare forms with two irregular transverse black stripes on red background. Interocular distance in frontal view 2.7–3.1 times eye width. Male genitalia (Figs 127–136): parameres slen- der, weakly expanded and rounded apically; penis guide slightly longer than parameres with large apical barb. Penis blunt or weakly pointed apically. <b> <i>Type material</i>.</b> Lectotype, male, OUM. “HOLOTY- OE, O.U.M./ Novius <i>sanguinolentus</i> Mulsant 1850, Ann. Sco. Agric, Lyon 2(2):943/ TYPE COL:1942 <i>Novius sanguinolentus</i> Mulsant, HOPE SEPT. OXFORD” <i>Other specimens examined.</i> <b>New South Wales:</b> Sydney, C. Darwin, 87-42 (2, BMNH); NSW, Sydney, 1904, R. C.L. Perkins, Coll. B.M. 1942-95 (1, BMNH). <b>Queensland:</b> Australia: Queensland and env. Rockhampton, 10-11.iii.1965, Exp. Dr. J. Balogh (1, ANIC); 6km N of Mt. Molloy, 16.iv.1980, G.F. Hevel &amp; J.A. Fortin, Loan from USHMNH 2031513 (1, USHMNH); Queensland Eny. Rockhampton, 10-11.iii.1965, Exp. Dr. J. Balogh (1, ANIC); Julatten, nr. Mt. Molloy, 16.i.1962, E.B. Britton, B.M. 1962-153 (1, BMNH); Bluff Rg. nr. Biggenden, 8.i.1972, H. Frauca (1, ANIC); 7-14m. W. of Herberton, via Watsonville, 1.v.1967, D.H. Colless (1, ANIC). <b>Western Australia:</b> Albany, 91-98, 4169 (1, ANIC). <b>Northern Territory:</b> Darwin, 1.ii.45, B Malkin, (1, USNMNH); 23.38S 133.53E, Todd River, 9 km N by E of Alice Springs, 28.ix.1978, M.S. Upton (2, ANIC). <i>Distribution.</i> New South Wales, Western Australia, Queensland, Northern Territory <b>(</b> Fig. 38).
description: Published as part of <i>Pang, Hong, Tang, Xue-Fei, Booth, Roger G., Vandenberg, Natalia, Forrester, Juanita, Mchugh, Joseph &amp; Ślipiński, Adam, 2020, Revision Of The Australian Coccinellidae (Coleoptera). Genus Novius Mulsant Of Tribe Noviini, pp. 1-24 in Annales Zoologici 70 (1)</i> on pages 12-14, DOI: 10.3161/00034541ANZ2020.70.1.001, http://zenodo.org/record/3776582
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