Novius lindi Blackburn 1889
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 lindi

description: <i>Novius lindi</i> Blackburn (Figs 25–29, 60–63, 81, 82, 122–126) <i>Novius lindi</i> Blackburn, 1889b: 188. TL: South Australia, Port Lincoln. <i>Rodolia lindi</i>: &amp;Sacute;lipi&amp;nacute;ski, 2007: 143. <b> <i>Diagnosis</i>.</b> <i>Novius lindi</i> is very similar to <i>N. bellus</i> but can be distinguished by having parallel sided, not apically expanded, parameres that are distinctly shorter than the penis guide, and the penis with a simple, sharp apex (Figs 25–28). The eyes are also more broadly separated in <i>R. lindi</i> than in <i>R. bella</i> (Figs 81, 82). <b> <i>Description</i>.</b> Length 2.5 – 3.0 mm. Body elongateoval, widest shortly behind elytral humeri, 1.2–1.4 times longer than wide. Color pattern variable. Head black; pronotum uniformly dark or with anterior part yellowish. Elytra of typical form black with yellowish lateral margins, and two pale spots, one central and second apical on each elytron. Melanic forms have elytra with variable amounts of black coloration, ranging to completely black (Figs 60–63). Interocular distance in frontal view 2.8–3.1 times eye width (Figs 81, 82). Male genitalia (Figs 25–28): parameres slender, parallel sided, not expanded apically; penis guide distinctly longer than parameres, apically pointed. Penis apically simple with sharp apical point. Female genitalia as in Figs 92, 93. <b> <i>Type material</i>.</b> Lectotype male (here designated), BMNH. “Type / Australia; Blackburn Coll.; B. M. 1910 - 236. / <i>Novius lindi</i>, Blackb / T 1089.” <b> <i>Other specimens examined</i>. Australian Capital Territory:</b> CSIRO, Canberra, 15-18.xii.1980, <i>Acacia</i> species, R.D. Pope, B.M. 1981-447 (8, BMNH); Deakin, Canberra, 22-23.xi.1980, <i>Acacia</i> species, <i>Clea</i> species, R.D. Pope, B.M. 1981-447 (1, BMNH); CSIRO, Canberra, 23.xii.1980, <i>Acacia</i> species, R.D. Pope, B.M. 1981-447 (3, BMNH). <b>New South Wales:</b> Cabramatta, Georges R. Valley, 7.i.1962. On flowers <i>Bursaria spinosa</i>, (1, ANIC). <b>Western Australia:</b> Yalgurup NP, 22.iii. 1981, R.D. Pope, <i>Jacksonia</i> species, R.D. Pope, B.M. 1981-447 (1, BMNH). <b>Queensland</b>: Brisbane, 28.viii- 24.xi.1998, V. Brancatini, O. Fahey (37, BMNH). <b> <i>Distribution</i>.</b> Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Western Australia, Queensland (Fig. 29).
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 11-12, DOI: 10.3161/00034541ANZ2020.70.1.001, http://zenodo.org/record/3776582
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